Waiting for the Bombers to Return

"Here they come! Slowly, almost casually, the formation drifts toward you out of the bright haze; and, in unison, everyone around you starts counting aloud: "Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen - seventeen out of twenty... Someone swears softly."

More about the remarkable B-17 can be read here.

Click here to read about the training of the bomber aerial gunners.