• HEROES FOR FREEDOM: TAKING ON THE GERMAN LUFTWAFFE...ALONE!

  • Jul 31 2024
  • Length: 10 mins
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HEROES FOR FREEDOM: TAKING ON THE GERMAN LUFTWAFFE...ALONE!

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  • TAKING ON THE WHOLE, DAMNED LUFTWAFFE...ALONE! Thirty and more German fighters swarmed in to attack the vulnerable "Wing" of American B-17 Flying Fortresses. The young American crews, seeing the massive numbers of enemy fighters ahead, began to believe that this might be their last mission. They'd never see the friendly skies of home again. But then, a lone P-51 Mustang appeared. The bomber crews desperately scanned for more. There were no more, and their hearts sank again. But what they didn't know, the man who piloted that lone Mustang fighter, was indeed the "angel on their shoulders," though in this case, he was a Destroying Angel--exactly what they needed! The wholly one-sided dogfight the B-17 crews watched over the next half-hour, is considered the finest ever witnessed in the skies over Germany...

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