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History: The Impact Of US B-17 Flying Fortresses In The WWII European Air War
The B-17 and B-24 were the US's most produced aircraft of WWII, each enjoying certain advantages over the other. Another bomber that packed a bigger bomb load than the B-17 was the Avro Lancaster ...
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The Boeing B-17: The Bomber that Made Hitler Sweat
The B-17 played a crucial role in transforming ... A total of 12,731 B-17s were produced while 18,482 Consolidated B-24 ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeing's B-17 bomber in ... turned out a new bomber design, and it received a contract for a flyable prototype, the XB-24, in March 1939.
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Survivors, families of those killed in B-17…
Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday, took this photo as the aircraft taxied for take off and shared it with his friends on Facebook. (Used with ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
The first piece of B-24 was completed at Willow Run two days after the attack. But Edsel had promised that the massive bombers would take flight in May 1942. After numerous delays and production ...