1Lt Edward S. Michael, while serving as pilot of a B-17 aircraft on a heavy-bombardment mission to Germany, ran into a swarm of enemy fighters. They singled out his plane and pressed their attacks recklessly, completely disregarding the Allied fighter escort and their own intense flak. His plane was riddled from nose to tail with exploding cannon shells and knocked out of formation, with a large number of fighters following it down, blasting it with cannon fire as it descended. A cannon...
72 years ago...today (11 April 1944)...
72 years ago...today (11 April 1944)...