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re: 8th Air Force Twin Raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt 8/17/43
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:24 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:24 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:The account of Morgan's mission in the book above is stellar. The crew was equally valorous.
That is the sort of man we sent to fight that war. Morgan was 28 years old at the time of the action described.
Same mission (I think), different crew, one crew member had to throw another unconscious crewmate out of the plane. He'd lost his arm, too high for a tourniquet. He was picked up and the Luftwaffe picked him up, and he lived. Life and death decisions made in real time by real men.
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Posted on 8/18/17 at 1:31 pm to Taxing Authority
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Same mission (I think), different crew, one crew member had to throw another unconscious crewmate out of the plane.
Seriously, I think this was the same crew. Morgan's top turret gunner lost an arm. Morgan's navigator bailed out the gunner before finally getting into the cockpit to provide assistance. I've never seen confirmation of his survival.
The main fuselage decompressed so the rear gunners were all unconscious. The pilot ended up dying after they landed, but all the surviving gunners had was some frostbite. During all of that Morgan's aircraft delivered bombs on target, relatively in formation.
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