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Old 03-22-2024, 08:22 PM
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A former gf's Dad flew B-17's in the 8th AF and when he got his 25 missions, returned home then flew B-29's in the Pacific and Korea.
He went on to fly B-36's, B-47's and ended his career as a Bird Col flying B-52's out of the Philippines during Vietnam.

He wouldn't talk of the 8th AF B-17 experience, but once showed me a photo album of flak and fighter damaged B-17's that returned shot up from a mission.

It was very gory, with a lot of blood and obvious fatal wounds to the flyers from what was shown from exterior pictures.

More men died in the 8th AF than the USMC during WWII.
B-52s didn't fly out of the Philippines. In fact, they weren't allowed to fly over the Philippines with ordinance, so when leaving Guam, they had to pass north of Luzon. Returning to Guam (empty) was okay. Guam and Thailand were the B-52 bases.
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