B-17 and ME-109 Mid Air collision
May 16, 2020 08:32:02 #
May 16, 2020 08:34:27 #
Quite a story. It's good Hitler didn't push that ME-109 project. He wasn't a very good leader overall, which was good for the world. There was also an advanced submarine that he didn't push, which was good for us.
May 16, 2020 08:50:13 #
Farm Boy
Loc: Mendota Illinois
My father was a crew chief on b-24 and told me of a B-17 landing in England after flying home from bombing run in WW-2, without tail . Might have been this one. not sure.
May 16, 2020 09:09:53 #
May 16, 2020 09:31:10 #
I don't know how those men did it. To fly around with parts of plane shot off, get back to base and rest for a day and then go back up in to sky to do it all over and keep during it until the war ended.
May 16, 2020 19:58:59 #
The B-17 was a tough bird. My dad had a collection of National Geographic that covered the
war years. I remember in one of the issues a picture of a B-17 that a German plane had crashed
into. The only thing holding the tail section was the catwalk.
war years. I remember in one of the issues a picture of a B-17 that a German plane had crashed
into. The only thing holding the tail section was the catwalk.
May 16, 2020 20:49:19 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Quite a story. It's good Hitler didn't push that ME-109 project. He wasn't a very good leader overall, which was good for the world. There was also an advanced submarine that he didn't push, which was good for us.
He was running out of resources and pilots at the time, not that he didn't want to.
May 17, 2020 04:48:21 #
olddutch
Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin
At that moment, you have to fly a airplane that no one has ever flown before.. And you have just a few short seconds to figure it out. How to keep it in the air..Best Wishes.
May 17, 2020 06:17:55 #
machia
Loc: NJ
My Uncle who taught me how to fly in 1972, flew a B-17 in WW2. It was his favorite airplane next to the 707 he flew while a Captain for American Airlines.
We would sit around the dinner table and he would tell stories of the war and all the planes he flew after the war. I could listen to him for hours. He wasn’t bragging about his war record, he was just talking about airplanes and his love for flying. He was a tough instructor, and today I thank him for it. I miss him a lot.
We would sit around the dinner table and he would tell stories of the war and all the planes he flew after the war. I could listen to him for hours. He wasn’t bragging about his war record, he was just talking about airplanes and his love for flying. He was a tough instructor, and today I thank him for it. I miss him a lot.
May 17, 2020 06:45:19 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
jerryc41 wrote:
Quite a story. It's good Hitler didn't push that ME-109 project. He wasn't a very good leader overall, which was good for the world. There was also an advanced submarine that he didn't push, which was good for us.
He said they were a Hoax
May 17, 2020 08:45:51 #
machia wrote:
My Uncle who taught me how to fly in 1972, flew a B-17 in WW2. It was his favorite airplane next to the 707 he flew while a Captain for American Airlines.
We would sit around the dinner table and he would tell stories of the war and all the planes he flew after the war. I could listen to him for hours. He wasn’t bragging about his war record, he was just talking about airplanes and his love for flying. He was a tough instructor, and today I thank him for it. I miss him a lot.
We would sit around the dinner table and he would tell stories of the war and all the planes he flew after the war. I could listen to him for hours. He wasn’t bragging about his war record, he was just talking about airplanes and his love for flying. He was a tough instructor, and today I thank him for it. I miss him a lot.
Uncles are Special people, and Good Uncles are Wonderful to have and remember.
I miss mine too. You made me remember mine today and . . .
Smile,
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Bravo Zulu
To You and Uncles Everywhere!
May 17, 2020 10:30:21 #
BurghByrd
Loc: Pittsburgh
Here's a follow-up on the pilot, Lt. Bragg, who survived the war.
https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000001579/en-ca/files/homepage/remembering-ken-bragg/Ken-Bragg-bio.pdf
https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000001579/en-ca/files/homepage/remembering-ken-bragg/Ken-Bragg-bio.pdf
May 17, 2020 10:55:03 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Quite a story. It's good Hitler didn't push that ME-109 project. He wasn't a very good leader overall, which was good for the world. There was also an advanced submarine that he didn't push, which was good for us.
And due to two silly OSS black boxes on train engines that ended blocking the tunnel entrances on the rail line chosen to run a crucial load of hard water into North Germany. Hitler's reich did not pursue the loading of the V2 set to carry an atomic weapon into London.
May 17, 2020 11:50:20 #
My brother flew tail gunner on a B-17 out of Ipswich England.
He came back one time with 1/2 the tail shot off.
He said that he saw the antiaircraft shell come in at his feet.
All he saw then was sky.
Someone pulled him back into the plane.
The high altitude kept him from bleeding to death.
He lived to tell about it.
He said that months after the incident he couldn't keep a razor blade sharp for long.
He came back one time with 1/2 the tail shot off.
He said that he saw the antiaircraft shell come in at his feet.
All he saw then was sky.
Someone pulled him back into the plane.
The high altitude kept him from bleeding to death.
He lived to tell about it.
He said that months after the incident he couldn't keep a razor blade sharp for long.
May 17, 2020 13:41:45 #
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