On March 18, 1945, German jet fighters (Me-262s) attacked Jake Shepherd’s B-17 formation on a daylight-bombing mission to Berlin. “Our gunners had great difficulty in tracking the jets because they ...
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How Many B-17 Flying Fortresses Are Left?
Built from 1936 to 1945, about 45 intact Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress remain. Today, less than 10 are estimated to still be airworthy. There were 12,731 B-17s produced in total, of which 4,735 were ...
The Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress," is displayed for private viewing at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP) The introduction of the Boeing B ...
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Why a P-38 Attacked B-17 Bombers
This is the story of the only time in history that an American made P-38 Lightning attacked American B-17 Bombers - when Italian pilot Angelo Tondi flew a captured US Army Air Force Lightning into a ...
DALLAS — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday released its preliminary report on the deadly plane air show plane crash in Dallas earlier this month. Just after 1:20 p.m. on Nov ...
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