Posted on Nov 18, 2017

two steps from hell-Birth of a Hero/War Thunder cinematic

SP5 Mark Kuzinski

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two steps from hell-Birth of a Hero/War Thunder cinematic.

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Thanks SP5 Mark Kuzinski for sharing the "music video" Birth of a Hero/War Thunder cinematic by two steps from hell
which begins with images of B-17s most likely before P-47 and P51 accompanied them on dallight bombing raids.
"The Flying Fortress is one of the most famous airplanes ever built. The B-17 prototype first flew on July 28, 1935. Few B-17s were in service on December 7, 1941, but production quickly accelerated. The aircraft served in every WW II combat zone, but is best known for daylight strategic bombing of German industrial targets. Production ended in May 1945 and totaled 12,726.
In March 1944 this B-17G was assigned to the 91st Bomb Group--"The Ragged Irregulars"--and based at Bassingbourn, England. There it was named Shoo Shoo Baby by its crew, after anote.gif (1440 bytes) popular song. It flew 24 combat missions in WW II, receiving flak damage seven times. Its first mission (Frankfurt, Germany) was on March 24, 1944, and last mission (Posen, Poland) on May 29, 1944, when engine problems forced a landing in neutral Sweden where the airplane and crew were interned."
http://wingsacrossamerica.us/wasp/planes/bombers.htm
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