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Life and Death Aboard a B-17
Soon after entering World War Two, the U.S. launched Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" and Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" from bases in England's eastern countryside. Americans bombed their targets during the day and the British at night. The B-17 was manned by a crew of 10 and bristled with machine guns. Up to 1,000 of these heavy bombers would fly in a 3-dimensional formation in which boxes of aircraft were stacked one above the other to take...
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