An on-again-off-again Murphy's Romance kind of boy friend of my mother in the 80s was a pilot of a B-24. He flew it limping home full of bullet holes more than once. Impressive stories.
Some truly crazy things happened. One that I always thought was interesting was about two B-17s that collided and then they kept flying on together and even attempted to land:
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