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Many of these engagements will not be new, however this is the highest quality copy I've ever seen and represents the raw footage rather than segments clipped from newsreels. 0:00 A well known engagement of a B-17 Flying Fortress partly published in Die Deutsche Wochenschau in March 1944, however what was not shown in the newsreel was that the aircraft was in formation when it first came under attack, and it is seen climbing away from its fellow bombers, a maneuver that is not tactically sound as it would bleed off vital airspeed as well as leaving the relative safety of the interlocking fire from the “combat box“ formation. One can therefore surmise that either the flight crew was incapacitated or the controls were damaged. The attacking fighter, likely a Messerschmitt Bf 110, takes advantage of the situation and lands multiple cannon hits on the fuselage and center section, with parts of the disintegrating aircraft structure flying towards it. A substantial fragment barely misses t
