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Title: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: Goat1 on October 25, 2013, 07:02:01 PM

Amazing story!
 ^{http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews5/rojohn.htm}

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: Tinkles on October 26, 2013, 01:51:09 AM

Quote from: Goat1 on October 25, 2013, 07:02:01 PM

Amazing story!
 ^{http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews5/rojohn.htm}

Wow.

 :O

 :salute

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: ozrocker on October 26, 2013, 08:03:32 AM

Amazing story :aok


                                                                                                                                               :cheers: Oz

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: 68ZooM on October 26, 2013, 11:38:54 AM

Thanks for the post ,  great read  :aok

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: matt on October 26, 2013, 11:53:29 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: Sunka on October 26, 2013, 12:29:48 PM

That's unbelievable.  :eek:

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: wpeters on October 26, 2013, 02:16:50 PM

Wow

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on October 26, 2013, 09:51:40 PM

 :headscratch: I wounder if we can get this to work in AH?

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: DaveBB on October 26, 2013, 10:16:21 PM

So was the ball turret gunner of the lower bomber still in the ball turret when the two aircraft crashed?  The story says one of the ball turret gunners died in the crash, but it doesn't make it very clear.  Was he the one who kept praying?

What about the top turret gunner of the lower bomber and the ball turret gunner of the upper bomber?

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: guncrasher on October 27, 2013, 03:33:16 AM

the gunner in the ball turret in the bottom survived.  the one on the top plane was stuck so he prayed on the intercom,  he died in the crash.



semp

Title: Re: Piggy Backed B17's
Post by: DaveBB on October 27, 2013, 10:24:30 AM

The ball turret gunner had it extremely rough.  When I was a kid, I had a chance to meet a ball turret gunner at an airshow.  He was on B-24s.  I was looking at the ball turret of a B-17 (I believe the gunners hatch was open and I was peering inside of the turret) and this old man walked up and asked if I minded if he looked.  He told me he used to be a ball turret gunner.  I wanted to ask him how many kills he got, but I figured that was rude, so I asked him what year did he serve.  He said 1943.  Wow.  B17s and B24s were offered up for the slaughter in 42 and 43.  Anyhow, it was very cool meeting him.

The ironic part of this is the B-17 was designed with a remotely belly turret.  However, the main reason it was removed is that during trials, it was said to induce nausea and airsickness in the gunners when sighting through the periscope.  If you puke in your oxygen mask at 25,000 feet, you're as good as dead due to it freezing and blocking airflow.