Out of the 3210 C-46 Commando, heavy lift USAAF transports to roll off the Curtiss-Wright Corporation production line in St Louis, Missouri, some 700 of them were lost, declared missing or written off whilst flying the extremely dangerous Himilayan 39;Hump' between Allied bases in India and the Chinese Mainland. 1659 Allied aircrew...
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By mid 1944, the B-17G, 42-31452 ‘Fifty Packing Mama’ was already a seasoned bomber veteran with 71 combat missions. Some of these had even taken the B-17 as far as the Soviet airbase at Poltava on the Vorskia River in Central Ukraine during the early stages of the USAAF Soviet’s...
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On a wing and a prayer...and an instrument gauge. 0450hrs and you're returning from a nightmare bombing raid over Bremen. Outer starboard engine feathered; no response from your tail gunner or wireless operator and there are gaping holes in both wings as oil streams from two of the aircraft's three...
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