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Initially used by RAF Bomber Command, it was handed to US Army Air Force later that year and B-17 bomber crews trained there.

“The journey they had to go through for the greater good, putting them in the most vulnerable atmosphere ever known to mankind,” he says, noting that the skin on the B-17 bomber was about as thick as a Coke can.

One B-17 survives Luftwaffe attacks and crash-lands in Northern Africa.

When the B-17 gets hit by Nazi flak and crew members are forced to bail, it looks terrifying.

Eighth Air Force and served as a radio gunner on a B-17, the massive bomber known as the Flying Fortress.