NACA Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress used by the NACA staff as a test platform during bomb dropping trials. (NASA Photograph.)
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The bombardier’s position of the B-17G Flying Fortress named “Sentimental Journey” on display at the War Eagles Air Museum at the Doña Ana County Airport, Oct. 2. The bombardier’s main tool was the Norden...
Closeup of the ball turret of the famous Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Memphis Belle.” (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A collection of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses parked at the 3rd Base Air Depot, Langford Lodge, Northern Ireland awaiting transfer to bomber units in England, April 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Farmers gather crops in England in the midst of dispersed B-17 Flying Fortresses of Eighth Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Color photograph of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 401st BS, 91st BG. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 8th Air Force prepare to takeoff from an air base in England on a bombing mission over Germany. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft of the 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group in formation over the Pacific in 1942. (U.S. Library of Congress Photograph.)
A B-17F Flying Fortress undergoes final assembly and inspection in a hangar at Douglas Aircraft factory in Long Beach, California in 1942. (U.S. National Archives Photograph / Alfred T. Palmer.)
B-17 Flying Fortresses in the winter snow at Rapid City Army Air Base, South Dakota during World War II. (Official U.S. Air Force Photograph.)