B-17 Flight 2013                                                                   Photos from Lester Schrenk           Updated:  28 JUN 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Lester Schrenk fløj med en B-17 den 13. juli 2013 - første gang siden 1944!
Dengang var han Ball Turret Gunner i en B-17. Det fortalte han om i december 2000.
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Lester Schrenk took the video 7 min. 54 sec.
B17 Yankee Lady flying over Lake Minnetonka
on 13 July 2013.
It was his first flight in a B-17 since 22 February 1944.
Then he was the Ball Turret Gunner of a B-17. He told about that in December 2000.
In 2013 he wrote
"The flight was most wonderful and it brought back so many wonderful memories.


B17 42-31377
with Lester Schrenk was hit on 22 FEB 1944 over the North Sea.
It flew till it crashed here, see overview here + here in Denmark.
See also Sgt Schrenk and Obl Müller in 2012 - and TV films about the event.