re: Woman taking pictures walks into plane propeller

I don't recall him telling me the fate of the crew. I do recall that the crewman in question was one of the waist gunners. My great-uncle didn't share too many of the "bad" stories of the war...I do know that he lost two of his crew on missions from enemy action...a navigator and and radio operator. Most of the stories he shared with me were funny ones...goofy stuff they did because it was "live today because you may die tomorrow."

He stayed in the military. Retired as a Brigadier General in 1965. After that, he never flew again because he said if he wasn't the one at the controls, he wasn't getting on that plane.

These are "prop stop" photos I don't need to see.

Tragic story.

But the lemonade is, her last photo will be displayed at the Guggenheim.

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ollow up question. Would the dead guy have been right? Did his crew go down shortly after? That would be spooky.

I'm sure that detail wasn't remembered or shared.

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The death rate for a B17 crew in WWII was a astonishingly high 50% chance of death ..... per mission.

I worked with a man who had walked into a plane's moving propeller at Lafayette Airport in the early or mid-1980s. He was lucky enough to survive the encounter, but it did much damage to his head, leaving enormous scars. He was sometimes called "prop-noggin."

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This should propel her career

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The news was split on how to report the death.

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The death rate for a B17 crew in WWII was a astonishingly high 50% chance of death ..... per mission.

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That is from google AI and I think it is wrong.

You would have to have astonishing losses on each mission, and the losses were high but not that high.

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I don’t see how anyone could be so oblivious as to even get close to an active propeller without realizing it

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like a moth to a flame, people are idiots when they get around airplanes

There were a small number of B-17 missions that had a 20-25% casualty rate, but nothing approaching 50% per mission.

I think the 50% rate is being used as a cumulative survival rate. Around 1943, Britain and the U.S. had implemented an around the clock strategy. Britain conducting night time raids, and America bombing during the day.

These raids were also going deeper into Europe and Germany, which meant a lack of fighter escorts for much of the time, while the bombers were flying deep into enemy territory. The losses were heavy. The standard goal for a crew was 25 completed missions, but for a time the losses were such the average crew could expect to complete only about 10 before the odds caught up with them.

Then the long range P-51 Mustang was introduced in late 1943/early 1944, and survival rates of the crews stabilized.

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“Amanda Gallagher was kind, adventurous, creative and beautiful inside and out,” the GoFundMe reads. “She was a loving daughter, sister, aunt and friend and will be greatly missed.”

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Of course there is a gofundme already