Mighty Eighth in WWII
On an early morning in the fall of 1942, Kemp McLaughlin''s group set out for a raid on a French target. Immediately after dropping its bombs, McLaughlin''s plane was hit. A huge fire burned a four-foot hole in his wing, his waist gunner bailed out, his radio operator was wounded, the plane lost all oxygen, and his pilot put on a parachute and sat on the escape hatch, waiting for the plane to expl...
On an early morning in the fall of 1942, Kemp McLaughlin''s group set out for a raid on a French target. Immediately after dropping its bombs, McLaughlin''s plane was hit. A huge fire burned a four-foot hole in his wing, his waist gunner bailed out, his radio operator was wounded, the plane lost all oxygen, and his pilot put on a parachute and sat on the escape hatch, waiting for the plane to expl...
