Inspecting B-17 Before Flight

ID: 684 ~ Source: National Archives ~ Creator: U.S. War Department ~ Date: July 2, 1944
This file appears in: First Mission
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An inspection of a B-17 before a mission. The B-17 Hicks flew would have undergone a similar inspection before his first mission.

This file appears in: First Mission

By Crawford Hicks
“I was happy as I could be or dumb and happy shall we say until I saw the first flight coming up. Our mission was to hit the V-1 bombs. They looked like ski jumps, so we called them ski jumps. They were on the coast of France... So our first mission…