B-17 wreck found.

[Stevex]

Saw this today, thought some of you chaps may be interested.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11907666/B-17-Flying-Fortress-bomber-found-on-seabed-off-Sicily.html

[twodogs]

Thanks. Here's to those Brave men, may they R.I.P.

[oldbike54]

 Noticed the copilot was from Oklahoma , Maysville OK in fact , nothing more than a small village . RIP indeed .
 Still , cool that they located her , quite a find .

  Dusty

[Stevex]

Compare the effort put in to finding even a trace of aircraft that go missing today, with the fact that wrecks from WWII are still being found today.
Can't imagine a time when a crew would risk their lives on a daily basis and have to wait decades to be discovered, if shot down.

[Arizona Wayne]

Compare the effort put in to finding even a trace of aircraft that go missing today, with the fact that wrecks from WWII are still being found today.
Can't imagine a time when a crew would risk their lives on a daily basis and have to wait decades to be discovered, if shot down.

When you consider that back then hundreds of planes were on the same mission at a time..............n othing like now where just a few planes are on a mission and we have satellites & electronic communication to track them.

[rbm]

RIP.

Question though.  The article says "The reported ended: “Status for the above crew – Dead.”, however the photo shows DED, not Dead.  Is DED a military acronym for something?

[ITSec]

RIP.

Question though.  The article says "The reported ended: �Status for the above crew � Dead.�, however the photo shows DED, not Dead.  Is DED a military acronym for something?

Good question - since the text above the crew list says 'no chutes were seen', I'd say the official stance would be that they had failed to return, and were presumed dead (rather than captured or missing) since their plane had been seen to be hit by enemy fire. A search of the usual sources fails to show a reasonable use for DED however...

[Dogwalker]

Is DED a military acronym for something?

I think is an abbreviation for "deceased".