1. Coming in hot!
On November 23, 1944, something happened at an allied base in Cortonburg, Belgium that still hasn’t been fully explained. On that day an American B-17G bomber was closing in on three Allied anti-aircraft gun positions and looked like it was going to crash right into them.
The soldiers on the ground could see that the bomber’s landing gear was down, and because of the way it was flying, they assumed the plane had been damaged or some of the crew were wounded. It was coming in fast, and the 35,000-pound bomber was falling from the sky right on top of them. They hit the deck and braced for impact as they cursed the pilot of the plane.