The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed ... was assigned to one of the B-17's seven machine gun emplacements. These included 13 M2 Browning .50 caliber twin tail guns ...

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 ...

It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed ... his movement constricted by the pair of machine guns he manned and several hundred rounds of ammunition ...

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’m trying to land for the first time. My instructor ...