my gramps was a bombardier on one. he dropped bombs on europe. they were hit by shrapnel once, and the plane was losing altitude. i never met the guy, and apparently he never talked about this kind of stuff because he was kind of a hardass guy of few words, but i read his flight log. they had to start throwing shit off the plane, and he pushed the bomb sight off. it was a $100k piece of equipment back then. in his words, 'i always wanted to do that.'