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TIL that the 100th bomber group was so wild and undisciplined, that during a 1943 training flight from Kearney Field in Nebraska to Hamilton Field in California, 3 B-17s landed in Las Vegas and one pilot flew his B-17 to Tennessee to visit his wife! Their commander was subsequently fired.

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