The B-17 Flying Fortress That Never Came Home | Ernest Vienneau's Last Flight

In November 1944, a B-17 Flying Fortress was struck by flak, killing the navigator instantly. His crew placed him in the nose tunnel for safekeeping, intending to bring him home. The aircraft never made it back and ditched off the island of Vis in Croatia. For decades, the wreck lay silent on the seabed, guarding Ernest Vienneau until his remains were finally recovered by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) In this video I explore this incredibly preserved B-17 Wreck. You will see the cockpit, the engines, and the specific tunnel section where the navigator was found. In this dive: *The history of the B-17 mission in 1944. *Technical Scuba Diving Vis Island: navigating the deep wreck *A comparison of the ditching performance of the B-17 and B-24 You may also enjoy my video about diving the B-24 Lady Luck which lies close by - https://youtu.be/QUUmdqExamo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *THE LOCATION* If you want to dive this B-17, the B-24 Lady Luck, and/or the many other wrecks on the island of Vis, I strongly recommend Manta Divers and my friend Andi Marovic. He's at [email protected] or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61580766149788 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *THANKS*