Without a slide show.
Thanks for posting.. my hubby will love these.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Without a slide show.
The worst website I have ever seen.
Many of the crew of these planes were about the same age as today’s snowflakes who cringe at the slightest perceived microagression and need to hide in their safe spaces with their coloring books. We are raising a generation of pussies.
This site is why you need an ad blocker for your browser.
I didn’t see a single ad. But you still have to click to go to the next photo, which is supposed to deliver a new set of ads to your screen.
One click is plenty. I won’t give them 25.
160,000 killed. Imagine the terror as the plane is hit and they spiral down.
Today we have the news media and the democrat party supporting our enemies.
The 25 combat missions minimum to get sent home was a death sentence because the probability of getting shot down on any mission was about 5%.
in Jablonski's "Flying Fortress: The Illustrated Biography of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them". A must read if you are into WWII stuff. My first reaction was "Oh Crap! Another bad hit." Then I read his comment and it blew me away. It was along the line of "The fuselage has now been turned into a 250 mph wind tunnel" Never thought of that and figured they were all gone, but the site says some survived.
Another point he drove home. He asked if the reader has ever been on one of those rides that whip you around and you couldn't move because you were pinned fast to the seat. He said it was the same as the plane dropped down - you were pinned in place and didn't have a chance.
And knowing this, they flew mission after mission.
"The Greatest generation" indeed.
"Boeing B-17G Wee-Willie 42-31333 LG-W, 323th squadron of 91st bombing group, over Kranenburg, Germany, after her port wing was blown off by flak.
Only the pilot, Lieutenant Robert E. Fuller, and one crew member survived."
These pics are amazing. RIP to all of these airmen.