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Don Scott | 560th Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force - Army Air Corps

11:28   |   Two engines were out, a third smoking, and they were were losing airspeed and altitude, but they were flying level and pointed home. Then time ran out for the B-17 and Don Scott had to slip down the hatch into the slipstream. Part 2 of 3.

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