“Here they come! Slowly, almost casually, the formation drifts toward you out of the bright haze; and, in unison, everyone around you starts counting aloud: “Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen – seventeen out of twenty… Someone swears softly.”
More about the remarkable B-17 can be read here.
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