Bomber Crew Chronicles – B-17 Crewmen Remember their German Missions

Feature from our sister publication Flight Journal. Aboard each of the thousands of B-17 Flying Fortresses that left the soil of England bound for targets in Europe were 10 young men. Outwardly, they were no different from any late-teen or early-twenties boy you’d meet anywhere in America. Ex communi periculo fraternitas‘From common peril, brotherhood’ Same faces, same names, same youthful vigor and sense of invincibility. But on their shoulders rested the...