B17 'Shot Up' Flyby

B-17 Flying Fortress based at Duxford in Cambridge performs a 'Shot Up' flyby at the Spring airshow 2007.

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Entertainment

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• Duxford
• B17
• Warbird
• Flying
• Fortress
• Airshow

[SoCalyankeefan]

now imagine about 100 of those flying over you dropping their payload.  thats wwII

[DerMessermann]

Build for killing civilians.

[yulbrenner]

I cried and left my comforting PC for the night.

[GunBroker100]

@Slowmotion1225 Make sure you bring up the millions of civilian casualties inflicted by German and Japanese extermination programs, as well. Ask the Filipino's and many other people in the south Pacific and China about that. There are horrors enough to go around. The magnesium bomb runs over Japan were designed to burn factories to the ground. Due to the Japanese practice of building in essence, paper houses, those fires rapidly spread to entire cities and towns in some cases.

[GunBroker100]

@DerMessermann You mean like the Krauts? Who did round the clock saturation bombing on entire cities. The allies did tactical bombing of military bases, bridges, rail lines, factories and V-1 and V-2 bases in daylight. Were the civilian casualties, of course. On a scale with those inflicted by the Germans and Japs, Hardly. German and Jap pilots were notorious for shooting defenseless pilots and crew who bailed out, as well.

[eaterofclams]

@gfimadcat

The He-111 was designed to be used as an airliner...obviously.

[atter0]

@Slowmotion1225 you should read up on dresden we bombed that city with incindearices knowing many would burn/starve to death...kill civies has an adverse effect on the enemys morale...we intentionally bombed the civilian districts as well as the militray complexes toward the end of the war..

[Slowmotion1225]

@DerMessermann

Built for destroying military targets. The American's did day time bombing to try to be more accurate and reduce civilian casualties, and paid the cost for that humanity with the blood of their air crews, 10 men lost to every plane destroyed. With expected casualty rates as high as 25% and more. Now if you want to talk about the B-29 fire bombing missions that killed more Japanese civilians then both the atomic bombs, then that's a different story...

[RayisSHORT]

@DerMessermann actually, they were originally built for coastal defense, and later modified to carry more bombs for "accurate" bombing.

[randyslittle]

@DerMessermann No it wasn't. In fact thats why the US did day light bombing to limit civilian dealths. It was not until GERMANY was firing v1 and v2 randomly at london that this changed. The Brits on the other had did night bombing for mass effect. Seriously 11 million civilians died in German camps BUILT TO KILL CIVILIANS. You got balls I must say.

[ehrediewahrheit]

@DerMessermann Wir müssen verstehen, dass eine der stärksten Waffen der Gegner unser Wille ist, uns ein schlechtes Gewissen aufgrund unserer Geschichte anlügen zu lassen. Such bitte auf youtube die Doku "Der zweite 30-jährige Krieg". Besteht aus 3 Teilen mit insgesamt knapp über 3 Stunden Dokumentation. Dort kann man viele Informationen finden, die von der offiziell verordneten Geschichtsschreibung ganz gerne "vergessen" werden. Z. B. bei User „bavarikus" ungekürzt zu sehen.

[gfimadcat]

@DerMessermann and the He-111 wasn't?