[fugazi]

And with nine or ten men per Fort, that adds up to a staggering number of lives. Not to mention that’s just one type of plane; there was a lot of other bombers over Europe and in the Pacific.

[chimera]

One of the more horrible aspects of going down aboard an aircraft is that once that thing started to spin or tumble, the g-forces just trapped you inside. You might be just feet away from escape but if the g-forces were too strong you couldn't get out. So you had to bail quickly before you were trapped or pray to God you were within reach of an escape hatch.

I always wondered why more crewmen didn't simply bail out once their aircraft was going down. The answer was, they couldn't get out.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not every man who was on the shot down bombers was killed and not all the bombers made it back with all crewmen alive.