B-17 Flying Fortress 5 Things you may not know

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The iconic B-17 is perhaps the most recoginzed aircraft of WW2 but here are 5 things that you may not know about the flying fortress. @AnyHistory

00:00 Intro
00:31 It's Famous Flyers
01:30 It's Role as a Drone Aircraft
02:24 It was saved by a procurement loophole
04:04 It was tough!
04:54 It's Innovative design

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AnyHistory
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Protection for the crew !? A Bomber crew had TERRIBLE casualties. If you finished 25 missions you got to go home . Check out the Ploesti raids ! Terrible casualties . The pow camps for fliers were huge and many, most airmen counted the missions off

oceanhome
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My great Uncle was a Luftwaffe fw 190 pilot who flew against these bombers.

zulubeatz
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The YB 299 crashed on its second flight due to not unlocking the control surfaces this was the 4Runner to having a checklist

jhargrove
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And did you know that there were more B-24s built and used then B-17s ?

garyjordan
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Jordan bomb sight accurate?? That how we blew up all those orchards and wheat fields ?? That 20 cent gizmo the Dolittle raiders had worked better

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While important to the bombing of Europe it was only joint backbone along with the lanc, please take the USA blinkers off otherwise good vid

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