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Title: “Our Worst Mission” WW2 Bomber Gunner | Memoirs Of WWII #24
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs82YgHYwNM
Published: Jun 5, 2020
Author: Memoirs of WWII
Post Date: 2020-09-07 19:37:49 by BTP Holdings
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Comments: 3

B-17 gunner Leon Waldman recounts several of his fifty bombing missions over German-patrolled skies, including one so dangerous that his survival left him with the feeling of being reborn.
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Leon is lucky he has vivid memories.
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#1. To: BTP Holdings, Lod, noone222, randge, All (#0)
Five years later, 1950, we were given B-29s with all guns except tail mount removed. No protection at all. Our task? If sent we would carry an A-bomb into Russia. It was suicide. That is war.

Cynicom posted on 2020-09-07 21:32:57 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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Why would they remove most of the guns from the plane? To reduce weight so the plane could go faster and/or farther?

StraitGate posted on 2020-09-07 22:26:22 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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