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18 December 1940 Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress, 36–157, c/n 1981, formerly of the 2nd Bomb Group, Langley Field, Virginia, transferred to the 93d Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, March Field, California, in October 1940, crashed E of San Jacinto, California, 3.5 miles NNW of Idyllwild, while en route to March Field. [3]
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.
B-17 30342 [22] B-17 30212 (Quarterback) B-17 31394 Crews abandoned the missiles without complications; a few minutes later one lost control and fell into the sea. [23] Both 30342 and 31394 experienced control problems and crashed into the sea, while B-17 30342 "T'aint A Bird II" impacted at Gravelines, probably due to flak damage. [24]
B-17 Flying Fortress. The four-engine B-17 was developed by Boeing in the 1930s and dropped more bombs than any other American aircraft during World War II, according to the Delaware Division of ...
anti-aircraft fire ("flak") was light over Regensburg and visibility clear, and of the remaining 131 bombers, 126 dropped 298.75 tons of bombs on the fighter aircraft factories with a high degree of accuracy at 11:43 British time. B-17s of the Regensburg strike force flying south over the Alps on their way to North Africa
B-17s similar to some of the Dresden raiders, with H2X radars extended from the belly where a turret would normally have been. Other B-17s relied on signals from those with radar. 316 B-17 Flying Fortresses bombed Dresden, dropping 771 tons of bombs. [72] [73] The remaining 115 bombers from the stream of 431 misidentified their targets.
"Directly below us (on 19 May 1944 to Berlin in B-17G 42-102411 [12]) in the path of our falling bombs was a B-17 out of position. Later pictures show a B-17 having his left stablizer shorn off by a five hundred-pound bomb dropped from above. That plane went into a steep dive, out of control, and was lost. As mentioned before, the bombs had to ...
As for the B-17's name, Zeamer's aircrew referred to 41-2666 only as "666" or "the plane". On 14 June 1943, two days before their final mission together, Zeamer officially named their B-17 Lucy. He had the name painted in script under the three windows on the port side nose, mostly between and underneath the small forward window and larger gun ...