Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to reinforce the service’s fleets in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska.

The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the main offensive weapons used during WWII. Here's who designed and built it, and where they were made.

It’s been exactly 90 years since the first flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. There are only three left in existence ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress went on to make its mark on history and became among the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Yet, it wasn’t actually the bomber that was produced in the ...

Rebuilding a ‘Flying fortress’ The B-17 was the most iconic bomber used by the US military during the second World War. Its origin actually traces back a decade earlier to 1934, when the Army ...

As he plunged toward the unforgiving earth, Army Air Forces Sgt. James Raley was stuck. It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where ...

A U.S. Air Force B-17 'Flying Fortress' bomber flies through the sky. A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently ...