Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - Wikipedia
The B-17's greatest success in the Pacific was in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, in which aircraft of this type were responsible for damaging and sinking several Japanese transport ships.
Operation Aphrodite - Wikipedia
Aphrodite was the World War II code name of a United States Army Air Forces operation to use worn out Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated PB4Y bombers as radio controlled flying bombs against bunkers and other hardened or reinforced enemy facilities.
B-17s at Pearl Harbor - Warfare History Network
This photo was taken moments after the B-17 bomber in the foreground, probably piloted by Lieutenant Karl T. Barthelmess, landed safely during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Another B-17 has landed in the distance, and a pall of smoke billows skyward from Battleship Row.
Life and Death Aboard a B-17, 1944 - EyeWitness to History
Launching Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" and Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" from bases in England's eastern countryside, the Americans bombed their targets during the day while the British attacked at night.
B-17s and a Big Week of Bombing - Smithsonian Magazine
2015年2月11日 · B-17 tail gunner Casimer Piatek recorded one attack—by a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter—in his diary after a 1943 mission to bomb German shipyards.
Pearl Harbor: The B-17 Flight
Sometime between the solo strafing and the attack by nine enemy planes, a crippled B-17C (40-2049) arrived at Bellows Field on the east coast of Oahu. Its pilot, First Lieutenant Robert H. Richards of the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, had been the last in line to land at Hickam Field.
B-17 | Crew, Range, & Bomb Load | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
2024年10月30日 · The definitive version of the B-17 was the G model, which entered service in the summer of 1943. Armed with no less than 13 0.50-calibre machine guns, including two in a new “chin” turret for defense against head-on attack, the B-17G fairly bristled with machine guns.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - The National WWII Museum
The iconic bomber of the European theater, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, carried the fight to the Germans in the skies over Europe.
B-17 Flying Fortress - World History Encyclopedia
2024年4月8日 · The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engined heavy bomber plane used by the air forces of the United States and Britain during the Second World War (1939-45). The B-17 had unusually heavy defensive armament, 13 machine guns in total in some models.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - Aviation History
The Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, finally brought the United States into the war and production of the B-17 rapidly increased. By July 1942, the US began forming the Eighth Air Force in Britain, equipped with B-17Es.