Gun Camera Footage- B17 Frontal Attack

WW2 Gun camera footage showing a frontal attack on a B17 Flying Fortress.

[@RYDER8140]

This a FW-190 damaging a 385th BG B-17 on 10/10/43 over Munster, Germany. The crew of B-17 shot down 7 planes before being shot down.

[@WW2Hangar]

Thanks for the information

[@DannyBoy777777]

They claimed 7 shot down. American gunners were notorious for exaggerating kills.

[@wirikuta14]

Thanks for sharing. Great video.

[@WW2Hangar]

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[@howdidigetthere]

I read a German account by Heinz Knoke, and how he had developed a strategy to always attack B-24s from the front because there were less machine guns at the front. I can't imagine being in a bomber with 4 planes strafing from the front

[@DannyBoy777777]

@ Aaron Beckmann He's a liar. Never trust memoirs. They're all self-serving.
The head-on tactics were developed by Egon Mayer and a few others in JG 2 in 1942.