Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

he Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). The B-17 was primarily employed in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial, civilian and military targets.

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The Crew Of The "Memphis Belle" Back From Its 25Th Operational Mission. All Of The Crew Hold The Dfc And Air Medal With Three Oak Clusters, And All Started With This Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" And Survived With Only One Casualty, A Leg Wound To The Ta - Page 1

A Pictoral Story Of The Great Tokyo Raid Of April 18, 1942. - Page 1

Colonel Kelly, Edward R. Murrow, A War Correspondent, And Crew Members Of The Martin B-26 '4-F' Pose Beside The Plane At The 386Th Bomb Group Base In Boxted Field, Essex, England On 25 February 1944. - Page 1

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