The B-17 Flying Fortress is a heavy bomber from World War II.

Current examples include the strategic nuclear-armed strategic bombers: B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, Tupolev Tu-95 ' Bear ', Tupolev Tu-22M ' Backfire '; historically notable examples are the: Gotha G, Avro Lancaster, Heinkel He-111, Junkers Ju 88, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-29 Superfortress, and Tupolev Tu-16 ' Badger '.

Connick made his screen debut in Memphis Belle ( 1990 ), about a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew in World War II.

* 1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

* 1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.

American B-17 Flying Fortress | B-17 bombers over Gizo, Solomon Islands | Gizo.

A Douglas B-18 " Bolo "; a Boeing B-17 " Flying Fortress "; a Boeing " B-29 Superfortress " and the B-36 " Peacemaker " dominating the group photo with a 230 Ft Wingspan.

* B-17 Flying Fortress ( RB-17G ) from 1946 – 51

During World War II, notable examples of US aircraft with turbochargers include the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt.

American B-17 Flying Fortress | Boeing B-17E.

** ( 12: 30 a. m .) – B-17 Flying Fortress air crash near Auckland.

Poltava Air Base, as well as Mirgorod Airport, were used as eastern locations for landing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers involved in those operations.

This included 2, 600 Venturas, 2, 750 B-17 Flying Fortresses ( built under license from Boeing ), 2, 900 Hudsons, and 9, 000 Lightnings.

An example of a WWII bomber would be a B-17 Flying Fortress.

In 1948, Charles Winters, Al Schwimmer and Herman Greenspun were convicted under the 1939 Act after smuggling B-17 Flying Fortress bombers from Florida to the nascent state of Israel during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

One day, Gunner accompanies Jim on a test flight of a new bomber ( an early Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress prototype ).

Between 1942 and 1945, Wyler, who became a United States citizen in 1928, served as a major in the United States Army Air Forces and directed two documentaries: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ( 1944 ), the story of a Boeing B-17 and its U. S. Army Air Force crew, and Thunderbolt!

In August 1937, as navigator under pilot and commander Caleb V. Haynes on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, he helped locate the battleship Utah despite being given the wrong coordinates by Navy personnel, in exercises held in misty conditions off California, after which the group of B-17s bombed it with water bombs.

When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.

During the morning of 24 June, 74 American B-17 Flying Fortresses were again dispatched to the bridge ; 38 hit the primary and 36 hit Tours / La Riche Airfield without loss ; escort was provided by 121 of 135 P-51s.

* Memphis Belle ( B-17 ), a USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress whose aircrew was the first in the U. S. Eighth Air Force to complete 25 missions in Europe and return to the United States.

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Colonel Keith Davenport ( Gary Merrill ) is the commander of the 918th Heavy Bombardment Group, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress unit based at ( the fictional ) RAF Archbury.

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress es dropping supplies to the Maquis du Vercors in 1944.

The airstrip was discovered by American planes on 3 December, and the first airstrikes were delivered by B-17 Flying Fortress bombers on 9 December.

Rhodes built the first model in 1942, a 29-note keyboard using aluminum tubing from a B-17 bomber aircraft.

During this period Port Moresby, especially its " villages ", fell into disrepair as the Fifth Air Force under General George Kenney " pushed his bomber line forward 1800 miles " rapidly establishing no less than five air bases around the sparsely populated town, and troops from a variety of nations under MacArthurs ' direction transited through the vicinity ; which became a major allied staging base feeding men and material forward from Brisbane, Australia which lies 1, 800 miles across the Coral Sea and about six hours away by B-17 bomber or C-47 transport.

After flying B-17 combat missions from Great Britain and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ), Hurlburt was assigned in mid-1943 to the First Proving Ground Electronics Test Unit at Eglin Field.

Upon completion of the B-17 training program, in October 1943, Great Falls Army Air Base was transferred to the Air Transport Command ( ATC ) and units from Gore Field were transferred to the base.

An example of a World War II era leaflet meant to be dropped from an B-17 Flying Fortress | American B-17 over a German city.

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber was flying from Nebraska to Dow Field in preparation for a trans-Atlantic flight to participate in the World War II strategic bombing of Europe.

When 14 surviving B-17 Flying Fortresses and 143 personnel of the heavy bombardment force were withdrawn from Mindanao to Darwin, Australia in the third week of December 1941, Headquarters FEAF followed it within days.

At 8: 50 am and 10: 00 am, telephone attempts to obtain authorization from USAFFE headquarters for a B-17 attack was also rebuffed by Sutherland.

When the evacuation party arrived by PT boat from Corregidor on March 16, four B-17 Flying Fortresses from Australia flew up to Del Monte: B-17E 41-2408, B-17E 41-2429, B-17E 41-2434 and B-17E 41-2447 and evacuated them to Batchelor Field.

This version used stock footage from Warner Brothers of a B-17 Flying Fortress, not a Lancaster.

At the height of World War II, 600 gunnery students and 215 co-pilots graduated from LVAAF every five weeks, and more than 45, 000 B-17 gunners were trained.

By 1944, students on gunnery missions fired from four-engined B-17, B-24 Liberator and B-40 Flying Fortress gunship aircraft while two-engine aircraft towed targets and single-engine tactical aircraft simulated attacks on the bombers.

In March 1945, the base converted from B-17 training to B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber gunnery training, with the population of the base peaking with nearly 11, 000 officers and enlisted personnel.

He commanded a nine-man B-17 crew in 51 missions over Europe, tallying 280 combat hours, and was the first naturalized citizen from the Philippines to achieve an officer's rank in the U. S. Army Air Corps.

During World War II, Geiger Field was a major training base by Second Air Force as a group training airfield for B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombardment units, with new aircraft being obtained from Boeing near Seattle.

In real life the individual survival rate for members of bomber crew was 1 out of 5-meaning only two individuals in a 10-man B-17 crew made it through without injury ( more often from frostbite ), mental breakdown or becoming a fatality.

Player participation is generally limited to allocating defensive fire from the multiple weapons positions on the B-17.

Among the best known were the US Douglas C-47, Boeing B-17, North American B-25 and Lockheed P-38, and British Vickers Wellington that used a geodesic construction method, and Avro Lancaster, all revamps of original designs from the 1930s.