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American officers and NCOs served as pilot, turret gunner and ground crew with 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, US Army Air Force in GB, 1944-1945
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REEL 1 Recollections of operations as air and groundcrew with 91st Bomber Group, 8th Air Force, US Army Air Force in GB, 1944-1945: size of bomber formations; question of fighter protection; characteristics of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress; gunner's firing on German fighters; turret gunner describes operations in ball turret; duration of missions; last raid flown by 8th Air Force to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 25/4/1945; use of 1st Scouting Force; danger of firing on other aircraft in group; attack on formation by Messerschmitt Me 262 jet aircraft; reasons for survival on combat missions; opinion of performance of ground crews; reasons for post-war visits to GB