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1943......B-17 tangles with 17 Zeros in this Historical action in the Pacific

Good Old American Initiative

I watched the video on History Channel concerning Famous Dogfights of World War II. Here is a Crew that salvages an old B-17 to be scrapped. That is what I call "Good Old American Initiative!"
 
O-1

Thanks for the link.:salute:
I was amazed to listen to their testimony and felt myself so small near those men...I wonder how some men have such a determination and strengh of will.

N.
 
yes most innovative and even today we see this with american technology and Ingenuity .


this can been as far as 1800 etc,,, and today ...this above video is one of many examples of how the american and company at times have defeated many and even in the medical field


since im canadian and have great respect for the american mean machine and its tenticles .. im looking for the america to save our artic in times of soon to be greed of such .


this b17 bombner we might need ....lol


great video


loverboy1- joshua
 
I don't like this serie. I've seen several of them in France on Planete channel and I've always been disappointed.

No historical details, comments are desperately poor with lots of inaccuracies and wrong informations. The low coast 3D anims are awfull and aircrafts just fly like in an old Super Nintendo arcade game, not as they should do.



Now, talking about this particular action, it was terrific for Japanese pilots to engage heavy bombers with the early Zeros. The two 20mm guns gave them good chances to do severe damages on a bomber but with the lack of armor plate and self-sealing tanks on their fighters, it was almost suicidal.
This B17 crew has been really lucky that the fighters had to turn back home because they were low on fuel otherwise, they would never have managed to come back home. As an exemple, Toshio Ota engaged a lone B17 in 1942 in the Solmons area and it took him more than 1 hour before he could finally shot it down!!
 
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