The B-17 Flying Fortress wasn’t just a bomber - it was a legend. Built to withstand relentless enemy fire, this aircraft helped change the course of WWII. But did you know about these five ...

Pictured: The waist blister turret of prototype bomber XB-17, which was not adopted in the final design of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Armed to the teeth, journalists remarked that it looked ...

Wilson Jr was flying in a B-17G "Flying Fortress" bomber when a hail of antiaircraft ... a concentration of wreckage consistent with a B-17 and began excavation. From August 6 to August 30 in ...

U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George F. Wilson Jr., 22, was the pilot of a B-17 “Flying Fortress” bomber that crashed near Monchy-Cayeux, France, on July 8, 1944. According to surviving crew ...

The first responder is the four-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, but that was 1930s tech in a 1940s war. The U.S. Army Air Corps requires a state-of-the-art high-altitude bomber with a max ...

And like many veterans, Moran, who was a tail gunner in a B17-Flying Fortress bomber called “Rikki Tikki ... Eugene Moran was born July 17, 1924, and grew up on a small dairy farm a few miles ...

The report did not give a cause of the crash. A P-63 Kingcobra fighter was banking left when it struck a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber behind the left wing during the Nov. 12 air show featuring World ...