Mission To Schweinfurt

It was one of the most dangerous bombing missions of World War II. The target was the now-famous Schweinfurt Keigelfischer ball bearing works on April 13, 1944. Approximately twenty minutes from the target, swarms of German ME-109s and FW-190s attacked the B-17 bombers in head-on attacks. The Eighth Air Force lost 38 bombers on that day. Pilot Dewayne Bennett's B-17 was the only survivor of the 545th Bomb Squadron. Listen to Bennett describe surviving this terrifying raid.