When a Ball Turret Gunner Fell Without a Parachute!

On January 3rd, 1943 a group of 72 B-17 Flying Fortresses were on a bombing mission in occupied France. Their target was a heavily fortified German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, an important strategic location for the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic. Inside a B-17 named Snap! Crackle! Pop! was 24-year-old Staff Sergeant Alan Magee in the position of ball turret gunner. Magee was on his seventh and last combat mission during which he was sucked out of the B-17 at an altitude of 20,000 feet without a parachute!

00:00 B-17s target a German U-boat base
01:27 Enter the Fw 190s
04:34 War Thunder
05:23 B-17s battle on
06:38 Sgt. Alan Magee is hit
09:19 Magee is free falling
11:15 Hospital
13:22 Operation summary

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