"Big Week" Feb. 19-25, 1944, the British put 2,300 bombers over Germany, the Americans 3,800. Germany lost 450 planes that week.
As the tide of war turned, the Allies roounted massive bomber offensives which devastated the German and Japanese homelands.
Here are the Flying Fortresses, Superfort-resses, Lancasters, Liber-ators, Marauders, and many other Allied bombers which powered those mighty raids.
Wartime footage from Britain's Iruperial War Museum and the United States National Archives, this video includes film of American, British and Soviet bombers from all theaters of the war.
Commentary was written by well-known aviation authority Christopher Chant.
"That ride down the corridors of the sky in a Baming bomber was to haunt eny mesnories for the rest of my life. I felt catapulted through space, spinning so fast. I couldn't pull my arms and legs into my body. I jerked the rip-cord and waited. Nothing happened and I thought On hell, the whole day is screwed up. I jerked it harder. There was a soft swish, then a hard jerk, and I was suspended in space, hanging in the most complete silence I had ever known."
(B-17 pilot in Europe)
