Aeroplane Heaven B-17G "Our Gal Sal" 2024-06-04

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Aeroplane Heaven B-17G "Our Gal Sal" - WWII Liveries

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Dateline March 6, 2019: 75 years ago today, the 8th Air Force set out for “Fortress Europe”, target Big B!! BERLIN. This would turn out to be the costliest mission for the Mighty Eighth and the “Bloody Hundredth”. Sixty-Nine heavies would be lost!!! Of which, fifteen never returned to Thorpe Abbotts. 150 men MIA, KIA or POW! The lone returning 351st bomb squadron B-17 returning that day was “Our Gal Sal” with the crew of Robert J. Shoens . When he...

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