8th Air Army raid on Münster in October 1943
Lieutenant Robert Sabel was trying to bring his Fortress "Rusty Lode" home. Eight B-17s from his 390th Bombardment Group had already been shot down. Sabel's plane was riddled with flak and shell holes, two engines had been knocked out and the fuel gauges showed only two minutes of fuel left in his tank. Three of the crew had been rescued in parachutes over Germany, four others lay dead in the bomber. Even a return to England was highly unlikely. Then he saw the runway just ahead...