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SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago

B-17 'Mizpah' after 88mm flak rounds ripped its nose off over Budapest, July 14 1944. Pilot kept it flying 10 mins so the crew could bail out.

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B-17 'Mizpah' after 88mm flak rounds ripped its nose off over Budapest, July 14 1944. Pilot kept it flying 10 mins so the crew could bail out.

SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago
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    1 month ago

    Wait. So the front fell off?

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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        I just don’t want people thinking bombers aren’t safe.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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      They had to fly it out beyond the environment.

    • Codpiece@feddit.uk
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      No, it wasn’t built by Boeing.

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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        wut? Probably was. Boeing designed the B-17 and built more than half of them.

        • Codpiece@feddit.uk
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          Ok, that’ll teach me to try and be amusing without doing research.

    • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

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      Where is this from?

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        27 days ago

        Some (japanese?) Cooking tutorial back in the day. I remember it popping up on reddit ~8years ago or so and becoming a meme.

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    Colorized by AI? Because the damaged area in the color version looks nothing like the mono version.

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    My pappy said they used to call that a “front row seat”.

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