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.
As did I. Good series.
Unfortunately there was no 'ejection' technology. Would have saved many lives.