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Battle Damaged B-17s
Good site with pics of heavily damaged B-17s that made it home.
Battle-Damaged B-17 Flying Fortresses: Intro page
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August 5th, 2007, 05:59 PM
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
Great pictures ! It really shows how tough these planes were. 
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
Excellent quality pictures, too bad the data is somewhat vague as to Missions and dates. Thank you for sharing.
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
It's amazing thoses kites made it home! I saw a picture of a Mosquito that had all it's outer skin burnt off-and survived.
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
Yikes !
I had to go to the Confederate Air Forces site for the crew/equipment layout of their B-17G, to see what machinery they lost and who (if they were at their station) had a bad day.
The nose looks like a bad place to be, but if you ship goes down...where is a good place?
Tough aircraft for sure.
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
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Thanks Slipdigit! Cool post! The Confederate Air Force comes to San Marcos ocassionally. Love to see them coast in...
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
In the nose damage pictures, there is one named "Tinkerbell" and was mentioned a jinx ship. What is that? The pilot was said to have been decapitated. That had to have been a ghastly trip home for the co-pilot.
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Re: Battle Damaged B-17s
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In the nose damage pictures, there is one named "Tinkerbell" and was mentioned a jinx ship. What is that? The pilot was said to have been decapitated. That had to have been a ghastly trip home for the co-pilot.
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I'm guessing something happened to it that was supposed to bring bad luck to it and the crew. I guess sorta like changing the name of ship while it is still on the slip was considered by the crew to jinx the ship.
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