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How Two B-17s Somehow Piggybacked After a Mid-Air Collision in WWII

Summary by World War Wings
Approaching the Target On December 31, 1944, at 19,000 feet above the frozen North Sea, First Lieutenant Glenn Rojan gripped the controls of B-17G Flying Fortress number 4231987, known to its crew as the Little Skipper. Next to him, Second Lieutenant William G. Leak Jr. monitored the instruments as the engines hummed steadily, their familiar thunder cutting through the frigid air. This bomber was part of the 100th Bomb Group, the “Bloody Hundred…
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World War Wings broke the news in on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
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