"The Cold Blue" chronicles the heroism of those B-17 bomber crews of WWII who took to the sky to face the horrors of enemy fighters and clouds of flak, day after day. By James Clark Posted on May ...
Flak hit the big bombers in a rain of steel pellets ... The German anti-aircraft gunners filled the sky with explosions and steel. Nearly a million men and women were committed to the guns.
The Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder holds pride of place in many a volume of historical aviation literature as “Flak-Bait.” The Glenn L. Martin Company built the B-26 Marauder to fulfill a ...