George Importe, a wiry B-17 tail gunner who flew 35 bombing missions over Germany during World War II and came to know the real meaning of the phrase "taking flak," died at his home in Auburn (Placer ...
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How a B-17 Tailgunner Survived the Skies of 1943
On July 30, 1943, during a massive U.S. raid over Germany involving 186 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 123 P-47 Thunderbolts, the B-17 Tondelayo came under fierce attack from waves of German Me 109s and ...
On November 29th, 1943, a large group of B-17 Flying Fortresses were on a mission to take out strategic targets in the industrial city of Bremen, Germany. Inside a B-17F from the 96th Bomb Group named ...
World War II veteran Beryl Kindred, 86, still remembers bailing out of his plane, then discovering a tear in his parachute. Kindred was a tail-gunner on a B-17 bomber, stationed in Molesworth, England ...
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.
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