#B-17

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"Bomber Legends"

[bigglesworld]

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. With WASP pilots in attendence. Florida

[lonestarflight]

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress "Big Yank" (44-6405) starting up her engines. This Fortress is credited with 3 Me 262 kills and one probable on March 24, 1945.

NARA: 195654

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Ground crew work on a B-17 prop on Espiritu Santo, December 1942

[ultimate-world-war-ii]

Waist blister turret of prototype bomber XB-17, which was not adopted in the final design of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, circa Jul 1935

Photographer: Unknown

Source   ww2dbaseUnited States Air Force

Added By C. Peter Chen

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[beautifulwarbirds]

She was a great lady. Still hurts to think of it.

[feralnumberfive]

Found this ad on Instagram with an AI generated B-17/image and I was pretty surprised. Look how the massacred my boy, it's grotesque compared to the real thing ⬇️

"Thunderheads Over Ridgewell" By Robert Taylor

A painting of B-17F "Memphis Belle" by Egbert Friedl

[todaysdocument]

Lt. Martin And Crew Of The 305Th Bomb Group, Are Shown Beside A B-17 Flying Fortress. 8 February 1944. England. (U.S. Air Force Number A60710AC)

Record Group 342: Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and OrganizationsSeries: Photographs of Activities, Facilities and Personnel

A group of 13 men pose in front of a B-17.  Seven stand in the back row and six are kneeling in front.  They are all dressed in World War II era flight uniforms. A propeller and fuselage of a B-17 bomber is visible in the background.

[a-4skyhawk]

B-17F 41-24577 “Hells Angels” was assigned to 358BS/303BG [VK-D] Bangor 14-Oct-42; arrived at Molesworth 24-Oct-42; in landing accident with Irl E. Baldwin 26-Apr-43; slated to RAF 100 Squadron, but retained by 803rd BS ATD (American Training Detachment) before completing 48 missions without an abort or any crewman injured. Returned to the USA at Newark, New Jersey on 10 February 1944 for War Bond tour. 41-24577 was the first aircraft to complete 25 missions in the UK, earlier than the much more publicized “Memphis Belle” reached the same status. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Field, Stillwater, Oklahoma on 7 August 1945. “HELL’S ANGELS”.

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Nine-O-Nine Running Up at Phoenix Mesa Gateway

[bigglesworld]

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 'Knock Out Dropper'. 303rd Bomb Group. Molesworth, 1945. The first B-17 in Europe to complete 50 combat missions on 16 November 1943, and the first to complete 75 on 27 March 1944

[lonestarflight]

Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress flying near Mt Ranier, Washington.

From the Paul Fedelchak Collection.

Date: February 28, 1938

San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive: link, link

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King Bee and crew, 351st Bomb Squadron.

(L-R, standing) Jack H. Oller - CP, Frederick D. Fuller - NAV, Carl A. Janssen - P, James M. Cathey.

(L-R, kneeling) Ronald E. Smeall - WG, T. Chappel - BTG, Sidney Graboyes - ROG, Veron T. McNabb - WG, Walter E. Fisher - TG, Earl L Symes - TTE

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Les résultats d'une collision entre le bombardier B-17 'All American' du 414th Squadron du 97th Bombardment Group et une aile d'un Messerschmitt Me 109 après une mission de bombardement (objectif récurrent, le port de Tunis) – Campagne d'Afrique du Nord – Biskra – Algérie – 1er février 1943

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