This painting depicts a not uncommon scene during World War II. Boeing
B-17 Flying Fortresses returning to their bases in England after a mission
over Hitler's "Fortress Europe". The B-17 carried a crew of ten men who,
when attacked by enemy fighters, would man their .50 caliber machine guns
and try to ward off the axis planes. You can shoot at a plane but "flak" or high
altitude anti-aircraft artillery was a different story. The shells would burst all
over the sky with no warning and fill the paths of the oncoming planes with
shards of steel, ripping everything in it's path. Everything. Aluminum,
plexiglas, leather and flesh. The planes could try to evade the flak until they
were lined up with their targets.
Then they would have to fly straight and level until their bombs were
dropped. Perfect targets.
However, a fictional plane, "Lucky Gal" lives up to her namesake in that she
brought all her crew home. Short of fuel and badly damaged, she made a
rough landing in an English wheatfield.
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