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 ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed ... this was vital. The B-17 boasted a crew of 10 men, including a pilot and co-pilot. Everyone else, including the navigator ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...