{"id":1307,"date":"2017-05-01T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?post_type=b17database&#038;p=1307"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:35:55","slug":"43-38689","status":"publish","type":"b17database","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/43-38689\/","title":{"rendered":"43-38689"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aircraft 43-38689 failed to return from an operational sortie to Mannheim, Germany on 13 January 1945. This aircraft received a direct hit in the tail section from enemy anti-aircraft fire, blowing off the horizontal stabilizer and pulverizing the whole tail section. Aircraft started into a steep dive, then broke up in mid air. No parachutes were seen to leave the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: MACR 11574<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Failed to Return (FTR) mission to bomb railroad bridge at Mannheim. Took a direct hit in the tail and plummeted earthwards. No crew escaped, probably held by the gravitational forces of the rapid descent. The lead plane of a higher squadron caught the plunge with its strike camera. Crashed Roxheim, Germany. 9 x KIA. 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