A bomber that is certainly holier than thou. The holes are the result of splinters from an anti-aircraft rocket that exploded next to this Handley Page Halifax Mark II over Central Europe during WWII. Remarkably she was able to make it back to base in Italy.
I follow this guy's channel - he's a jet tech rebuilding jet engines. Every now and again he'll take a walk through someones old warbird collection. Every time I see all the complicated hardware in even the early birds, I can't help but think of the crews scrambling to patch up the mess the flak and bullets left behind.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing so many made it back.
DeleteI was going to link this on Facebook until I remembered the title! - lol
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