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 ...
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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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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Bomber That Won World War II
The Flying Fortress could hold a crew of 10 and was warmed with 10 .50-caliber machine guns. The B-17 platform played an instrumental role during WWII. As detailed by the National World War II ...
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Mechanic on board WWII-era B-17 that crashed at…
a Collings Foundation B-17 Flying Fortress, flies over Bristol, Conn. A B-17 vintage World War II-era bomber plane crashed Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, just outside New England’s second-busiest ...
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Lewistown airman dies in one of WWII’s worst single-day losses
By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...
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B-17 Flying Fortress the Bloody 100th
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from B-17 Flying Fortress the Bloody 100th Manage and take control of the 10-man crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress as they attempt to complete 25 harrowing ...
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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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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 ...