Posted on 05/02/2017 6:19:45 AM PDT by artichokegrower
The strategic bombing campaign during WWII cost the lives of roughly 160,000 Allied airmen and 33,700 planes in the European theater alone.
We have collected incredible images of the last moments of World War II bombers. Wherever possible we have added information to the images about the crew’s fate.
(Excerpt) Read more at warbitz.com ...
Thanks for posting.. my hubby will love these.
Clickbait
Ugh. Major clickbait BS site. How do we avoid these junk sites?
Watched recently “Five Came Back” on Netflix.
‘Author Mark Harris on Turning ‘Five Came Back’ Into a Netflix Documentary’
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/five-came-back-mark-harris-interview-1202006357/
There is a sequence in the documentary about the 25th and final mission of The Memphis Belle crew. The film footage of the mission was shot with William Wyler’s direction and there is a famous scene when one of the other B-17s was hit by enemy fire and was circling down before crashing. The crew of the Memphis Belle began counting out the number of airmen who managed to eject from the aircraft. Very haunting.
Wow. I took a look at the article. Good photos, but ... whew. That site is so slathered with ads. It’s pretty obvious that it’s clickbait. Yikes!
As did I. Good series.
My PC lost it on the second photograph.
We need to take pause and remember the loss our families across this nation suffered during that extended air campaign.
Looking at these photos is so heartbreaking, I would not exist if my Dads plane had been shot down. The crew had reunions every five years for decades, when they all retired, they had them every year.
When my brother called a crew member to inform them of our Fathers passing at 80, he sobbed uncontrollably. So my brother started crying, two grown men sobbing on the phone over the passing of their Captain, the one that got them home safe, mission after mission.
Gave up on the third picture, the “next link” was always somewhere different.
There is no slideshow. There is one pic og the B17 Silver Bullet with her tail knocked off.
The last one shows a B24 getting their wing blown off.
My Uncle was in the first plane to go down in that squadron.
It was before this footage.
They were known as Kelly’s Cobras.
He didn’t make it.
Sadly some of these went down in Europe just before the end of the war. My dad was a crew chief in B-17s and my uncle flew in PBYs in the pacific. Both made it home unscathed. Reviewing these pictures I see why neither had much to say about what they did.
Would love to see all of these warbird pics, but this is just clickbait.
There were quite unfortunately, great numbers of those photos, and certainly fewer than the number of actual bombers lost. The guts it must have taken to fly those things is unfathomable.
This site is clickbait central.Avoid it at all cost.
...Gave up on the third picture, the “next link” was always somewhere different...
Thanks member the TV show “sliders?” You never know where you will wind up next.
Member? It’s not even happy hour yet.
So much crud on that page I couldn’t find but 2 pictures in the “slideshow”.
In about 1999 we found online pictures the family had never seen of a Swedish funeral for my husband’s Uncle and another fellow. He survived the initial hit, in Germany , the bomber managed to get to Sweden and land, but he died @24 hrs later. He was the bombadier.
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