Chronology of World War II

Saturday, January 9


Wreckage of an American B-17 Flying Fortress


Wreckage of an American B-17 Flying Fortress
Picking through the wreckage of an American B-17 Flying Fortress destroyed in a Luftwaffe raid on an Algerian airfield, January 9, 1943. Costly German raids forced all B-17's westward to safer fields near Oran, which meant a twelve hundred-mile roundtrip bombing run to Tunis.