Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical ... Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B ...
The B-17 and B-24 were the US's most produced aircraft of WWII, each enjoying certain advantages over the other. Another ...
Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...
The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport last fall told federal investigators he believes the pilot “froze” in ...
By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...
The Flying Fortress could hold a crew of 10 and was warmed with 10 .50-caliber machine guns. The B-17 platform played an instrumental role during WWII. As detailed by the National World War II ...
This image taken from video provided by National Transportation Safety Board shows damage from a World War II-era B-17 bomber plane that ... as the pilots and crew chief struggled to get the ...
At Altus Army Airfield, Oklahoma, he bought a well-used B-17 for ... bombers). After a stop in Palm Springs, California, where Lacey wrote a bad check to cover refueling, the crew ran into a ...
HUDSON — Donald Dacier, the last living member of the so-called "Ready Teddy" flight crew, a B-29 bomber that flew dozens of ...
The Lancaster Bomber carried out daring missions, including the audacious Dambusters raids, on Germany during World War Two. It had a crew of seven ... famous plane of WW2. Its groundbreaking ...