Photo: Joseph Palmersheim/Sun Current

Here Lester Schrenk is photographed at an
airshow on 13-14 July 2013 standing
by one of only two still airworthy B-17 bombers in
the world. As a veteran he and other passengers had a flight of half an hour
over Eden Prairie and Lake Minnesota.
It was Schrenk's first flight in a B-17
since he landed in a field in Sĝnderhaa on
22 February 1944. It brought back a
lot of memories, he told the local reporter
of the media house Sun Current.
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Photo: Joseph Palmersheim/Sun Current

The small
ball turret, from which Lester
Schrenk had to shoot from the B-17,
can be turned in all directions.
(See Photo of a B-17 + B-17s in airmen.dk and
B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition and Ball Turret Gunner
by Lester Schrenk.
Only Yankee
Lady and Sally B are still
airworthy.)
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