World War Two

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

• Collier's Magazine, 1943 •


“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.

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WW2 bomber mechanics in Englanddifficult lives of B-17 bomber ground crews during ww2life on a B-17 base in EnglandAmerican bomber crews in WW2 EnglandB-17 bomber pilots living in ww2 england

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

Waiting for the Bombers to Return

WW2 bomber mechanics in Englanddifficult lives of B-17 bomber ground crews during ww2life on a B-17 base in EnglandAmerican bomber crews in WW2 EnglandB-17 bomber pilots living in ww2 england
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