re: 100yr old B-17 pilot talks about his experience

And realize most if not all of that 10 man crew were in their early twenties.

If a pilot was 24 or 25, they called him the old man.

There were thousands of aviators killed on U.S. soil trying to learn how to fly both fighters and bombers.

12,000 or so B-17’s built and close to half lost in accidents and in combat.