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WWII B-17 Pilot takes one final flight

better duck

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Very moving indeed and sobering too: shows us what it really was about, the world of the A2, B3, B10 and the like. These old eyes have seen things, that we would be loathe to see.
Same thing with a combat diary I just finished reading from a ball turret gunner from the 457th BG, John Briol. He wrote it - illegally - right after each mission, then not knowing whether he would survive the next mission, let alone make it to the (by then) required 35! It is moving stuff. I'll get back to that in a separate topic some day soon. But this video has the same impact: what must one have experienced that tears still fill ones eyes, some 65 years after...?
 
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