There are pubs near Cambridge with pictures of B17s on the wall. These pubs where where they went for a pint. Their mission survival rates are shown on the plaques --- 0.5 mission survival rates.
Heroes, and our debt to them is is beyond gigantic.
#Rememberance and respect.
Aug 17, 1943 – World War II – The U. S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission. That's 600 airmen. I was still in the US training in Oroville, seeing Glennishttps://www.gofundme.com/yeager-file
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My high school math teacher was a crewman in those raids.
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Read a book in high school about the "Incredible 305th" bomber group, talked in detail about the losses that day - brutal
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a reminder of so much given by so many, for all of us.
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A truly great loss!
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60 bombers?
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Was that the ball bearings bombing missions? All those aircrews in the bombers and the fighters that did what they could to protect them.
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