This Day in Aviation History

August 17th, 1943
Attacks by the US Eighth Air Force on Schweinfurt and Regensburg in Germany cost 60 B-17 bombers, the heaviest daily loss of the war.

Wikipedia, Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission:   http://bit.ly/1pUIbiw

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