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120 B-17\u2019s assigned to target the Fieseler Works and AGO factory in Oschersleben producing Fw190 components and airframes on 28\/07\/1943. Also of note this was the deepest USAAF bombers had ever flown into Germany since the start of the war. Only 37 B-17\u2019s recorded a bomb strike on the primary targets, yet the mission was rated as a good result. After the mission at 0910 hrs the outbound formation of bombers was intercepted by Fw190 fighters of II.\/JG 11 near the North Sea coast and after a 20 minute engagement claimed 12 B-17s. Luftwaffe pilot Unteroffizier Wilhelm Fest’s rocket struck the the \u201cLady Susie II\u201d (#42-30257<\/a>), and the aircraft lost control and collided with \u201cBetty Boom\u201d (#42-3316<\/a>) piloted by 2Lt. Wiliam Storr, and subsequently into the flight path of \u201cRoundtrip Ticket\u201d (#42-30285). All three aircraft went down into the North Sea west of Sylt, near the island of Helgoland (54\u00b030’0″N \/ 7\u00b045’0″E). 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