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One of our Bombs is Missing

18 min • 19 februari 2019

A B17 crew training before deploying to Europe during WW2 managed to put a little town in Oklahoma on the map but not in the way they might like!

 

The M38A2 100lb practice bomb was no small device when dropped from a few thousand feet!

 

How the centre of Boise City might have looked on the night it was bombed!

 

The B17 Flying Fortress.

 

 

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Doug Kerr, the USAF, Google World and Airwolfhound.

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