Paratroopers make a big deal about jumping out of planes from 800 feet, but U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Magee fell out of a plane at 22,000 feet without a parachute while the plane was on fire.
And he lived.
Magee was a ball turret gunner in a B-17 named “Snap! Crackle! Pop!” after the three mascots for Rice Krispies cereal. That plane, along with others from the 360th Squadron, was sent to bomb German torpedo stores in St. Nazaire, France on Jan. 3, 1943.
During the mission, the plane was shot by anti-aircraft guns and became a ball of flames. Magee climbed into the fuselage to get his chute and bail out, but it had been shredded by the flak. As Magee was trying to figure out a new plan, a second flak burst tore through the aircraft and then a fighter blasted it with machine gun fire.
Magee was knocked unconscious and thrown from the aircraft. When he woke up, he was falling through the air with nothing but a prayer.
Magee told God, “I don’t wish to die because I know nothing of life,” according to reports from the 303rd Bomb Group.
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What -if anything- do you know about that photo of a B-17 flying along with just one engine in the nose of the aircraft, where the bombardier would have been? I never ever saw that before.
That is a B-17(G) Variant or to be exact the JB-17G. It was a Pratt and Whitney engine test bed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress_variants
Thanks; I was clueless.
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