Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.

It happened the morning of August 17, 1943, when an American ... his experience had been in B-18 and B-25 bombers—and he had never been in a dogfight, so the combat that day was the ultimate ...