The Sally B in Belgium: A Fly-past Honoring the Fallen Warriors from the 92 Bombing Group

[rangerrebew]

The Sally B in Belgium: A Fly-past Honoring the Fallen Warriors from the 92 Bombing Group
02/07/2020
By Captain Peter Kuypers

On Wednesday 13 September 1944, just a few days before operation Market Garden, a lone B-17G 42-97848 Silver Wings from the 92BG was returning from a bombing mission over Merseburg.

They were on their own because an engine had been knocked out by flak and therefore, they could not stay in the formation. Enemy fighters attacked several times killing and wounding crew members.

The pilot Jack Peck decided to try to make an emergency landing at the Belgium airfield Diest which was in allied hands.

https://defense.info/global-dynamics/2020/02/the-sally-b-in-belgium-a-fly-past-honoring-the-fallen-warriors-from-the-92-bombing-group/

[sneakypete]

Watching films of these bomber crews getting blown apart or crashing in flames in movies as a kid was what convinced me to look a nice,safe job in the infantry.