Why B-17 Gunners Started Firing "Through Their Wings" — And Shot Down Twice As Many скачать в хорошем качестве

Why B-17 Gunners Started Firing "Through Their Wings" — And Shot Down Twice As Many

Why B-17 bomber gunners started firing at impossible range during WW2 — and shot down twice as many German fighters. This World War 2 story reveals how one defensive tactic changed aerial combat forever. October 14, 1943. Staff Sergeant Michael Archangelo, ball turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress over Schweinfurt, Germany, opened fire at 1,200 yards—four times maximum effective range. Every training manual said this was impossible. Aviation experts called it wasting ammunition. His commanding officers would have called it panic fire. They were all wrong. What Archangelo discovered that morning wasn't about accuracy. It was about changing the mathematics of aerial combat in a way that contradicted everything the Eighth Air Force taught about defensive gunnery. By the end of Black Thursday—the bloodiest mission in bomber history—gunners across the formation started doing what Archangelo had done. And they survived. This technique spread unofficially through B-17 and B-24 squadrons, gunner to gunner, saving hundreds of bomber crews before appearing in any training manual. The principles discovered in ball turrets over Germany in 1943 continue to influence modern fighter defensive systems today. 🔔 Subscribe for more untold WW2 stories:    / @wwii-records   👍 Like this video if you learned something new 💬 Comment below: What other WW2 tactics should we cover? #worldwar2 #ww2history #ww2 #wwii #ww2records