Meet my uncle Bill Lentz (my mom's older brother). B-17 pilot, shot down and killed over Germany in 1944 on his 33rd sortie out of the base in northern England. His entire crew survived after bailing out. He was 6' 6" and weighed 170lbs. He steered the crippled aircraft away from homes allowing his crew to parachute to safety. At his size, getting out of a B-17 cockpit with a parachute was about impossible.
