I need to read this my father was a bomber pilot in the 92nd

I should read this. 92nd Bomb Group 327th Bomb Squadron B-17 #4339110 mid air collision over Dresden ?? My Great Uncle was Thomas J Shanahan , a radio operator . Crashed April 17, 1945

+David fletcher Not to mention getting shot to death by an attacker, or being unable to bail out if the plane was plummeting towards the ground.

David fletcher , I personally knew one who survived at least 15 bombing runs as a machine gunner in B-17 ball turrets. His 15th run was the most demanding. They had a bombing run where their plane literally got pretty much shot to pieces. Flack caused heavy damage, taking out at least one engine. One piece cut through his pants leg, narrowly missing the skin. The pilot's radio microphone was literally shot out of his hand by a machine gun bullet. Luckily, he wasn't injured.They had to fly through all that flack and bullets, but did drop all of their bombs. The plane suffered still more damage. Ventilation was shot out, as were hydroids, brakes, and flaps. They were losing altitude badly, but somehow made it back to England. They crash landed on the runway, 110 miles per hour, with no brakes to stop them, busting out runway lights, trying to stop, but skidded off about 300 feet into a field. He had a lot of shrapnel in his flight jacket, which had to be carefully removed without him getting cut up. They returned later to look at their plane. They started counting holes, and gave up at 300. The plane was like a piece of Swiss cheese, but amazingly all of the crew survived.