Chapter 40: The ones who weren't so lucky
Chapter 40 explores the topic of luck and remarkable escapes.
1. The mission details are based on the unit history of the 301st.
2. The conversation in the Officer's Club is fictionalized, but the stories about the tail gunner who survived a fall in the tail of the plane, the plane that was almost cut in half, and the details of the miraculous survival of the members of Lieutenant Pearson's crew are documented in Who Fears? by the 301st Veterans Association.
Media and Web links:
1. Figure 40-1 Web: View Oscar Koski's flight records for January, 1945.
2. Figure 40-2 Web: Learn more about some of the documented remarkable survival stories of men of the 301st Bomb Group.
Copyright 2007 by Dan Oja