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Dec 10, 2021 · Captain Colin P. Kelly’s Boeing B-17C is raked by Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeros after having dropped its bombs on a Japanese invasion fleet off the Philippine coast on December 10, 1941—one of the first American offensive actions of World War II.
Feb 16, 2011 · Sixty years ago this week, on Dec. 10, 1941, Capt. Colin P. Kelly Jr. took to the sky in his B-17 bomber. His mission to bomb Japanese positions in Taiwan was one of the first American responses to the attack on Pearl Harbor just three days earlier. The mission cost Kelly his life, but in death he was celebrated by a grateful nation desperate ...
B-17 pilot Colin Kelly lost his life and gained lasting fame when his bomber was shot from the sky on December 10, 1941. Wednesday, December 10, began wet and cloudy, as though even the heavens were in mourning.
Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. was a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress pilot who flew bombing runs against the Japanese navy in the first days after the Pearl Harbor attack. He is remembered as one of the first American heroes of the war after ordering his crew to bail out while he remained at the bomber's controls trying to keep the plane in the air ...
Dec 10, 2016 · A Brief History. On December 10, 1941, Colin Purdie Kelly, Jr. became the first in a long line of American heroes that flew the great Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a pairing of the greatest bomber of World War II and the greatest bomber pilots.
Feb 26, 2022 · Kelly was born in Madison, Florida in 1915 and graduated from high school there in 1932. He went on to West Point in 1933, graduated in the Class of 1937, and was assigned to a B-17 bomber group. He was the first Army officer to fly the Boeing Flying Fortress in the Far East. Battle and death.
Jul 11, 2018 · For his extraordinary heroism and selfless bravery, Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr. was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Kelly had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for successfully flying his B-17 10,000 miles across the Pacific to the Philippines before the war began.
