History: The Impact Of US B-17 Flying Fortresses In The WWII European Air War
Though it wasn't the bomber that actually ended the Second World War (that distinction and honor belongs to another Boeing ...
Everything You Need To Know About The 'Flying Fortress' B-17 Bomber
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was an iconic symbol of American aviation during World War II. It holds a storied history as ...
Military.com12d
How a World War II Tail Gunner Survived a Midair Collision Without a Parachute
Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...
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Learning to Fly the Fortress
The tower at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, clears me to land in a crosswind gusting to 40 knots, 5 over the limits of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ... bombers from World War II, and in the summer of ...
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Saying Farewell To Another B-17 And Its Crew
The harsh reality of keeping historical airplanes airworthy and flying is that from time to ... Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model ...
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Nine killed in WW2 bomber crash remembered
An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad weather in Reigate while returning from a mission over Germany on 19 March 1945. On Wednesday, a service took place at the ...