Someone shot my Dad's 270 Mauser with Weaver 4X at a target and said "how do you hit anything with that". I don't remember his response. Probably didn't say anything but shrugged his shoulders. He didn't ever say much. I never knew him to miss a whitetail with any rifle. When he was a B-17 tail gunner he loaded his guns with straight armor piecing, no tracers. He got a Distinguished Flying Cross. When I asked what he got it for, he said for shooting down German fighters. When I asked him how many he shrugged his shoulders. I think he must have been the kind of natural shot this post is about. David
Awesome story!
I was priveledged to be part of a team that restored (in our spare time) the B-17F at the Museum of Flight in Seattle known as "The Boeing Bee" back in the late 90's.
I absolutlely love WW2 Army Airforce history.
The B17F did not have forward facing .50 caliber guns thus vulnerable to frontal attacks by German fighters early in the war. They were phased out or missions changed (Pacific Theater, bombing shipping) by 1943.
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