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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: 68Ripper on November 02, 2006, 02:13:47 PM
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This is truly an amazing story
be sure to read all 4 pages, well worth it.
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/world_war_2/3026536.html
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thanks for the post!
JoLLY
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Kind of puts any problems you may have these days into perspective.
Thanks for the post.
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Perk the Twin B-17!
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This same article can be read in the Fall 2004 Special Edition issue of Flight Journal. The article begins on page 44 with a painting of the aircraft conjoined. there are also pictures of the crews.
SIM
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:eek: wow
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that was amazing. 8 engine double deck B-17 would be an awsome addition to the game. thats like 24 guns to man.
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The fact that 10 crew members (including the Pilot and co-pilot) survived in itself was amazing
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That would make it a B-34 :rofl
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if stories of such courageous and selfless behaviour
doesn't bring some tearing to your eye and a wee
bit of tightening in the throat......then u probably
aren't human.
never ceases to amaze me how many acts of bravery
were carried out by seemingly "ordinary" men.
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I cant believe they didn't make a movie on this.
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Holy crap! What an amazing story!
There was so much stuff flying around in WWII that there are occasionally these stories of things that seem like they'd be impossible.
There are others I remember reading, like one in Fork-Tailed Devil, by Caiden. Pilots were at an airfield when they heard the whine of a P-38 in a very high-speed dive. They knew this noise was not a good sign, as it was in the days where the P-38's mostly didn't have dive brakes, and such a high-speed dive and the noise of it was an indication that the plane was in compressibility and probably was going to smack into the ground or break apart. They looked up to see the P-38 come apart in mid air -- but miraculously a chute opened, and the pilot was parachuting down. When he got down, though, they found that the pilot was dead of a gunshot wound and based on the wound suspected that the pilot had already been dead even before reaching the airfield.
There was one story of Hub Zemke (in Zemke's Wolfpack, by Zemke) of his last flying mission. He was flying a P-51 through a thunderstorm on his way back from a mission, when the plane encountered heavy turbulence and went into a spin. He recovered, but was going very fast by the time he got out of it. He pulled g's to get the plane out of the dive when the plane disintegrated (an airframe failure abrupt enough to seem like an explosion). Zemke was knocked unconscious and came to while falling through the air strapped in his seat. He unstrapped and pulled his rip cord, to drift down and get captured by the Germans.