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On April 13, 1945, the final Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Forces, marking the end of ...
Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... but from radio communication between the crew and tower, it’s understood the B-17 was having ...
The size and complicated design of the B-36 Peacemaker caused perpetual headaches for her aircrew—and maintenance crews on ...
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 I ... and dings while three crew chiefs crawl on ...
A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...
His crew was part of the 353rd Bomb Squadron ... an Eye and Hand in World War I The tail gunner compartment of a B-17 Flying Fortress. (Wikimedia Commons) Intentionally flying off course, the ...
A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...