Originally posted by Overlag
you prove our point exactly though dred, that is a B17 its a BOMBER, BIG, slow and loads of tight formations of B17s are easy targets for 88's, NOT a turning, fast, small fighter
No The pics just show the bombers survived it better
Lt. Lenton F. Kirkland, Jr., a P-38 ace with the 474th FG 429 FS is downed by flak and killed near Liège.
Raymond V. Hearn, No.112 Squadron, Fano, Italy, during Febuary 1945. Hearn flew two tours with No.112 Sqn on Kittyhawks and Mustangs. He was the leader of B Flight and used the individual letter "Q" on his aircraft. He downed a Ju 188 in this machine on 9 September 1944, even though only one of his four guns was working. He was killed on what would have been his last sortie on 18 Febuary 1945, his plane exploding after being hit by flak.
Lt. Col. Luther H. Richmond, (left) CO 486th FS, talking with friend Lt. Col. W. Chamberlain, squadron commander in the 388th BG. Chamberlain had flown into Bodney in his B-17 to test fly Richmond's P-51B, code PZ-R, serial 43-7196. Chamberlain was KIA over the coast of France due to flak in May 1944, while Richmond was downed by flak and made POW April 15th, 1944. This photo from the first two weeks of April 1944 shows the Mustang sans the later sweeping blue nose treatment, applied to 352nd FG fighters a few weeks after this photo was taken
" On April 16th, 8th AF fighters from 15 groups claim the record of 747 LW planes destroyed on the ground while strafing airfields in Germany and Czechoslovakia, 34 American fighters are downed mostly by light flak and small arms and 30 LW planes are downed in dog-fights."--American Wings over Belgium
July 1944 - Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, Commanding General of the Ninth Air Force, pins the Distinguished Flying Cross on 1st Lt. William Y. Anderson 354 fighter group(left) of Chicago, Ill., in ceremonies on an air strip on the Cherbourg peninsula of France. Also: Lt. Anderson's plane "Swede's Steed" caught fire during a raid over Hanover, Germany when he was hit by flak. He beat out the flames, suffering blisters on his legs. In 49 sorties, he was hit five times by flak, downed two enemy aircraft, and damaged five others (7 Kills). He was 22 years old at the time the photo was taken.