B-17 Bomber Pilot "Lucky" Luckadoo on the "Four F's"

B-17 Bomber Pilot John H. "Lucky" Luckadoo explains the "Four F's" that plagued every bomber pilot during World War II—fear, fighter jets, flak and freezing temperatures.

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