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Old 5th Oct 2019, 19:08
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Originally Posted by b1lanc
And here is what an 8th AF305th Bomb Group B-17 Flight Engineer experienced - 6 months training before 26 missions serving as an FE and top turret gunner.


https://sites.google.com/site/8thafh...ray-peterson-f
The timeline makes the difference. The 303 Bomb Group manual was dated 1943. Flight engineer training formally started in Texas for enlisted personnel in March of 1944 and during that interval a lot changed. The article states that the person was in Flight Engineer school for six months. However, since there are so many errors in the article the six months could have been the combined time including basic, gunnery plus the engineer schooling i.e., start to finish time for all training before deployment.
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