Lucky Mission
A bomber crew from the 1st Bomber Wing make final preparations for their next mission in “Button Nose,” a late model B-17G S/N 43-37704 (MS-G) that served its short career with the 535th Squadron at Ridgewell, England, during the summer of 1944. At that time, bomber crews worked at a feverish pace to support the strategic bombing campaign over Germany’s industrial complexes and to soften Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe resistance to the Allied breakout from Normandy....
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