"Mr. Lucky"

This is the B-17G that my buddy, Joe Frank Jones , rode down in the severed tail for 13,000 ft. and survived.
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Joe Frank was Mr. Lucky, I think.

Beautiful painting, Bob.

 

Excellent painting! Very beautiful. When i see a B-17 the first thing that comes to my mind is the great Memphis Belle (together with the well known movie).

 

Bob- Great painting. There were a couple of guys with no B-17 tail and no chute to slow them down that survived dropping out of a B-17. Seems like one went through a convent roof and ended up in a bed and the other landed in deep snow. From memory.

Who says the guy with the net was first? First intentional one, maybe.

 

Yes, I do recall that a tail gunner had to bail in the soup and as soon as his chute deployed he hit in a deep snow bank without any serious injuries. Joe Jones was impaled by some of the structure and sustained some extensive abdominal injuries. He said that a blacksmith had to cut some of the metal apart to get him out. He had a scar that went from his crotch to his breast bone.