On July 5, 1943, at 21,000 feet over Sicily, one B-17 waist gunner changed the rules of aerial combat forever. When intense German flak and a massive Luftwaffe fighter swarm threatened to annihilate the 99th Bomb Group, Staff Sergeant Benjamin F. Warmer III did the impossible—using a hand-held .50 caliber machine gun to shoot down seven enemy fighters in a single mission. Full video: https://news.xwrapper.com/pzzo7t | Mawlana Owais Khan
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On July 5, 1943, at 21,000 feet over Sicily, one B-17 waist gunner changed the rules of aerial combat forever. When intense German flak and a massive Luftwaffe fighter swarm threatened to annihilate the 99th Bomb Group, Staff Sergeant Benjamin F. Warmer III did the impossible—using a hand-held .50 caliber machine gun to shoot down seven enemy fighters in a single mission. Full video: https://news.xwrapper.com/pzzo7t | Mawlana Owais Khan
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