Masters Of The Air Clip B17 Bailout 'I'm Sorry Baby Face'

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[VloggingThroughHistory]

This was Sgt Martin Hinton (Baby Face)'s first mission with this crew. The last person to bail out and live said he was still in the turret when he bailed. One other guy also died from this crew because he pulled his chute too early and it caught on the plane. Hinton was a local boy for us where I live, from Youngstown, Ohio. Rest in paradise, hero.

[LuluBee]

My grandfather was a ball turret gunner, he volunteered because he didn’t have a wife and kids (he was only 19). This makes me so emotional.

[stevotwo]

I don’t know what to say after watching this poor man in the ball turret I think I think this scene is the Epitone of life and death in a B-17 bomber😢 The last man who made it out, didn’t have a choice, but that would definitely haunt him for the rest of his life.

[citadelpariah]

Wasn't WWII but my grandfather perished in 1951 in a similar incident. B-29 training accident near San Antonio. Shortly after takeoff there was an engine fire and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. As far as the crash investigation was able to determine, one of the crew was new and inexperienced. He pulled his chute before clearing the bomb bay and the parachute got tangled up in the back of the aircraft. My grandfather was a gunnery instructor at the time and was in the rear of the plane with the trainees. The pilot stayed with the aircraft as long as he could while my grandfather and the others tried to get the trainee who was on the outside of the aircraft back in so they could bail out. Control of the aircraft was eventually lost and the pilot bailed, no one in the back of the airplane survived.

It's a surreal feeling watching this with the personal history involved. I never met my grandfather, and my father was born a few weeks after the accident. To us it's always just been a story, but this scene sure makes it a lot more real for us. Miss you granddad. Thank you.

[_Tristen_]

He really couldn’t help him anymore, at least he did try to save him and he stayed for a good bit, but there was simply no more he could do. He didn’t want to die for a door that was clearly just not going to budge.

[TheModelGuy]

That sudden cut to us watching from a distance…and knowing the crews in surrounding bombers would have no idea of the struggle inside. Just perfectly showed us some of the horrors of the air war

[blank]

This happened in navy ships, when bulkhead doors were closed to save the ship from sinking, but resulting in crew members trapped inside to suffer drowning. War is a terrible math that as few must sometimes die to save the many.

[tomoslewis]

Stayed as long as possible, and just a bit beyond but still couldn't help. I couldn't imagine the guilt.

[thomaswright]

I watched this episode and i didn't move an inch. This series is immense and fantastic. And Jesus, really emotional!

[saedrix]

As horrible as this is, what would TRULY haunt Quinn is if he had never tried to save him at all. Quinn did the right thing. Sometimes you gotta understand when you’re screwed. He gave it his effort and it didn’t cut it.

[MrCrazychristian]

He did the right thing, but man, that was difficult to watch happen.

[rwd]

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

'Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

[Cptn_Charles]

this clip makes me think of the last moments of the 7 marines and 1 sailor from my pre-deployment, that drowned in 2020 inside of that AAV. the helplessness they must have felt. I know I never saw combat, and I'm thankful for that... but that's the one thing that is on my mind almost everyday. dying in training, where you think its a controlled situation.

[Smret]

What a horrible thing to watch. I have heard of stuff like this happening, but to actually see it was terrible. My many thanks and my heart goes out to the greatest generation who sacrificed and endured this conflict to protect the freedoms we sometimes take for granted.

[warrenchambers]

Thats what I'm talking about! Now they're getting it. God bless the men and women who made this as these men many of them my friends DESERVE that you ALL know how God awful what they suffered so long ago was really like. I write this with tears in my eyes and appreciation in my heart. Thank you for showing their reality.

[Snaproll]

There is no better word than horrifying.

[arkwill]

There was a TV show in the 80's called _Amazing Stories_ which was an anthology produced by Steven Spielberg which aired for 2 seasons. It was kind of like _The Twilight Zone_ but usually a little more kid-friendly and positive. Well anyways -- one of the episodes focused solely on the flight of a B-17 where the ball-turret gunner got stuck in his turret when it would no longer rotate or retract due to battle damage. The crew then found out that, also due to the battle damage, they couldn't extend their landing gear and he would be crushed when they had to belly in back in the airfield in England. On the long flight home the crew tried ideas to get him out - such as feeding his parachute down to him (because it wouldn't fit through the only small opening they had to reach him when it was packed) and planned for him to kick out a window panel and bail out - but it ripped. So, of course the predicament, gets more and more urgent as they near home. I won't spoil the end but it was something that made the story worthy of a TV show that featured sci-fi/fantasy/super natural twists. It was a great episode and very well done. Steven Spielberg himself even directed that particular episode. It even featured some big names early in their careers like Kevin Costner, Anthony LaPaglia, Kiefer Sutherland, and Casey Siemaszko. I liked that it wasn't really dumbed down and quickly familiarized the audience with the basics of how a B-17 and crew functioned. It introduced a lot of us young 80's kids with the hazards faced by a B-17 ball-turret gunner.

[craigthescott]

A co workers father in laws father was a tail gunner. He picked out bullet fragments from his arms for years after being raked by bullets from fighters. These guys made more sacrifice than any warriors in our history.

[nunomiguelbernardinopicao]

His voice will haunt me to the day I die, may I never be in this situation when I have to choose who lives and who dies

[toddmac]

I had the opportunity to fly in a B-17 a couple of years ago. I rode the bombardier seat in the nose. I remember wondering how difficult it would be for these guys to have to get out in an emergency. The bombardier and the navigator don't have direct access to the bomb bay. They have a separate entrance just off of the nose of the aircraft. Just climbing in was no easy feat. I can't even imagine crawling into the ball turret. This was an intense scene.