a cool story of a b 17 crash ..
On the morning of November 15, 1944 a B-17G bomber (AAF Serial Number 42-9772

, nicknamed ‘NONE’ of the 301st bomb group, 352nd squadron) crashed over the Austrian Alps. The aircraft and crew of 10 American airmen were returning to Lucera, Italy, following a successful bombing mission of Linz Tank Works, Austria.
http://www.kleinsoelk.at/flugzeugabsturz_eng.html