Boeing B17 Bomber Mid-Air Collision, 1943 | Rare Historical Photos Vol. 35 #Video

Spectacular Boeing B17 Bomber Mid-Air Collision, 1943
This aircraft was involved in mid-air collision and it became a subject of one of the most famous photographs of World War II. In February of 1943, a Boing B17 Flying Fortress, named "All American", was part of a mission to bomb the docks at the port of Tunis, in order to cut the supply chain to the German and Italian armies operating in Tunisia. On their return flight, a German fighter "Messerschmitt", lost control while attacking the formation and it collided mid-air with the American bomber, cutting diagonally through the fuselage, and causing considerable damage. However, the robust design and construction that made the Flying Fortress a legend, allowed the bomber to return safely to its home base in Algeria. None of the ten men aboard were injured. The airplane was under the command of the pilot, Lieutenant Kendrick Bragg. The aircraft was later repaired and returned to service.

Please check the video for more powerful and rare photos from history that will transport you back in time.

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02.Portrait of Chief Joseph 1877 vs 1903;
03.A sheesha street café, Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, 1885;
04.Double-decker steam-powered bus, operated by the London Road Car Co, travelling between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus c.1900;
05. A chest X-ray in progress at Dr. Maxime Menard’s radiology department, Paris, c.1914. Menard would later lose his finger to side effects from operating the X-ray machine;
06.Great portrait of workers in front of Locomotive 209 in Decatur, Alabama c.1915;
07.A portrait of the crew of German submarine posing with a puppy mascot, 1916;
08.Oskar Hilner with an MG08 machine gun on a cooking pot Aug - Sept 1916;
09.Two soldiers and a mule wearing the German 'Gummimaske' during World War I 1916-17;
10.Anti-Vaccine (smallpox) Protest at Old City Hall Toronto, Nov, 1919;
11.Walt Disney as a red cross ambulance driver in France after WW1, c. 1919;
12. Legendary Norwegian opera singer and Wagner soprano Kirsten Flagstad as Elsa in 'Lohengrin', 1929;
13.Beautiful couple on the beach, San Diego, California, 1940s;
14.Albina Mali-Hocevar, a Slovenian anti-fascist resistance fighter who became national heroine, World War II;
15.A soldier goes weak in the knees after Linda Darnell asks him to dance at the Hollywood Canteen, 1944;
16.Atomic bomb test, Bikini Atoll, 1946 (Colorized);
17.Babe Ruth’s last appearance at the Yankee Stadium, New York City. He died of cancer two months later, by Cornell Capa, 1948;
18.King George VI on his last Balmoral holiday 1951;
19.Marilyn Monroe by Harold Lloyd, 1953;
20.Jayne Mansfield and her husband Mickey Hargitay as Tarzan and Jane at a costume party, 1956;
21.New York City celebrates the Kennedy campaign with a ticker-tape parade, 19th October 1960;
22.Playboy founder Hugh Hefner as a young man (1969);
23.Rare photo showing Niagara Falls without water, 1969;
24.Freddie Mercury in Japan, 1975;
25.Keanu Reeves - promo photo for the film 'Dracula', 1992.
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