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He fell 20,000 feet without a parachute: The miraculous WWII survival of B-17 gunner Alan Magee

In January 1943, during a brutal daylight bombing raid over the heavily defended German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, B-17 ball ...
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Ball turret gunner's miracle: How he survived that hit

The mystery deepens. New evidence reveals the iconic damage to the B-17's ball turret was not from a fighter's bullet, but from flak shrapnel during the bomb run over Magdeburg. This video uses pilot ...
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Dead engine kids : World War II diary of John J. Briol, B-17 ball turret gunner : with comments from notes of other crew members / [John F. Welch, editor]

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