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I think it was amazing any of them made it back alive. I have read the mortality rate for US pilots was at about 75%, heard it was worse for RAF.
My dad was a piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress. In his later years he finally began to speak about some of those experiences. Several times came back on a single engine, major mechanicals down or out, low to no gas and flac holes everywhere.
Recalled an occasion a piece of flac severed his communication line, but preferred that to his throat. Another, he said they came back one time and if you held up your hand anywhere on the fuselage you would hit a hole made by flac.
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