Completed 2009 Collection of Roger Watts Limping along in a crippled Flying Fortress over the North Sea and still within reach of enemy fighters, 94th Bomb Group pilot 2Lt. C. Arliss Watts and his crew breathe a sigh of relief at the arrival of an escort of P-51s. Their B-17G, nicknamed "Roll Me Over," had received flak damage while on the bomb run over Kiel, Germany, on 4th April 1945, resulting in the failure of the no. 2 engine and a dangerously windmilling propeller. The suspense was not over yet, for soon after they had passed the island fortress of Heligoland the Mustangs would depart and the no. 3 engine, seen here trailing an ominous mist, would also fail, forcing Lt. Watts to feather that propeller. However, the crew did return safely to the 94th's home base of Rougham, near Bury St. Edmunds.
Completed 2009
Collection of Roger Watts
Limping along in a crippled Flying Fortress over the North Sea and still within reach of enemy fighters, 94th Bomb Group pilot 2Lt. C. Arliss Watts and his crew breathe a sigh of relief at the arrival of an escort of P-51s. Their B-17G, nicknamed "Roll Me Over," had received flak damage while on the bomb run over Kiel, Germany, on 4th April 1945, resulting in the failure of the no. 2 engine and a dangerously windmilling propeller. The suspense was not over yet, for soon after they had passed the island fortress of Heligoland the Mustangs would depart and the no. 3 engine, seen here trailing an ominous mist, would also fail, forcing Lt. Watts to feather that propeller. However, the crew did return safely to the 94th's home base of Rougham, near Bury St. Edmunds.
(Courtesy Roger Watts)