“Here they come! Slowly, almost casually, the formation drifts toward you out of the bright haze; and, in unison, everyone around you starts counting aloud: “Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen – seventeen out of twenty… Someone swears softly.”




More about the remarkable B-17 can be read here.


Click here to read about the training of the bomber aerial gunners.

Read Life on a B-17 Base in England<br>(Collier’s Magazine, 1943) for Free

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