And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
_B-17 Flying Fortress #44-8135 DF-A, of the 324th Bomb Squadron , 91st Bomb Group with battle damage from a mission over Hamburg, November 6, 1944
The B-17 wasn't pressurized and the entry door was on the right side behind the waist gunner's position. AI says the damage was an 88 shell detonating in the radio operator's compartment. Dave
The British considered removing all the gunners from their bombers, as they flew night missions and never saw anything. That way, when the plane got shot down, fewer men died. But the pilots wouldn't take off without their "security blanket" of sacrificial victims.
The B-17 wasn't pressurized and the entry door was on the right side behind the waist gunner's position. AI says the damage was an 88 shell detonating in the radio operator's compartment.
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Just a joke, Anon. Not meant literally.
DeleteGuessing every gent on the aircraft had a back door blow out when it happened…
ReplyDeletewww.americanairmuseum.com/archive/aircraft/44-8135
ReplyDeleteThank you for that link. I found a bit of info on my father in law, George Baltes.
DeleteWell, that's 4 dead or injured.
ReplyDeleteThe British considered removing all the gunners from their bombers, as they flew night missions and never saw anything. That way, when the plane got shot down, fewer men died. But the pilots wouldn't take off without their "security blanket" of sacrificial victims.
Boeing craftsmanship, pre-DIE.
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