It is the most potent symbol of American Airpower in military history. Designed to fend off ferocious attacks of the German Luftwaffe it dealt a deathblow to Nazi wartime industrial production and razed Hitler's capital to the ground. Each crewed by 10 men--thousands of them would fly the most perilous missions of the Second World War. But many would never return.

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