Caliban Rising on MSN
The B-17 Gunner Who Fell 20,000 Feet Without a Parachute
During a fierce bombing raid over Nazi-occupied France, Staff Sergeant Alan Magee was blown out of his B-17 Flying Fortress ...
Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88. Born in Buffalo, he grew up on a small farm on Smith Road in ...
TJ3 History Official on MSN
When a Ball Turret Gunner Had to Land His Crippled B-17
This is the story of B-17 Bomber "10 Horsepower" of the 351st Bomb Group, and the mission in which Archie Mathies and Walter Truemper won the Medal of Honor as gunners for flying their Flying Fortress ...
At the time, it was considered a miracle. On July 30, 1943, an American B-17 Flying Fortress, the “Tondelayo,” survived a bombing run on Kassel, Germany. When the Tondelayo returned to its base in ...
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