His B-17 Was Cut in Half — He Rode the Tail Section Down From 24,000 Feet

#ww2history #wwii #militaryhistory On November 29, 1943, Staff Sergeant Eugene Moran was trapped inside the severed tail of a B-17 Flying Fortress thousands of feet above Germany. Both arms were badly wounded, his parachute had been damaged, and the rest of the bomber had disappeared into the sky. There was no escape. The nineteen-year-old tail gunner remained conscious as the wreckage plunged toward the ground. Instead of striking open farmland, the broken section crashed through trees near Syke, Germany—slowing the impact just enough for Moran to survive. German troops found him critically injured and took him prisoner. Eight members of his crew died, while Moran and the navigator became the aircraft’s only survivors. This is the unbelievable true WWII story of Eugene Moran—the airman who rode a shattered B-17 tail from the sky and lived. #ww2history #wwii #militaryhistory