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.

Donald Madar is the great nephew of technician Andy Piter Jr, from Pennsylvania, who was 22 when he died in the crash. He ...

A memorial service has paid tribute to the crew of two American Flying Fortress bombers that collided 75 years ago. The airmen from 379th bomb group were returning to a US airbase in Kimbolton ...

Seconds later, his bomber was struck in the plane's radio ... often referred to as the "Flying Fortress" because of the 13 machine guns carried aboard the plane. Of the 12,732 B-17s built during ...

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In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated by the Collings Foundation, crashed with thirteen people on board. After landing hard and skidding into the de ...

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Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad ...

By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber capable of flying long distances with heavy ordnance loads. The Navy ordered ...

Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad weather ...