Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This aircraft differed from the standard B-17 in that a second dorsal turret was installed atop the radio operator's position between the forward dorsal turret and the waist guns, where only an upward firing single or double Browning M2 had been mounted; and a single .50 in (12.7 mm) machine gun at each waist station was replaced by a pair of ...
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 .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Redirect page. Redirect to: List of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants;
The fuselage of Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 3 February 2024, placed next to the museum's F/A-18C Hornet and EA-6B Prowler.. Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, originally Shoo Shoo Baby, is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in World War II, preserved and currently awaiting reassembly at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
The 3rd Air Division, once converted to an all-B-17 command, followed suit in the winter of 1944-1945, employing elaborate schemes which included colored chevrons and bands on the aircraft wings that required months of labor to convert all its aircraft. Those schemes are depicted in the B-17 link below.
Prior to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the 19th Bombardment Group had 35 B-17s in the Philippines.By 14 December, only 14 remained. Beginning on 17 December, the surviving B-17s based there began to be evacuated south to Australia, and were then sent to Singosari Airfield, Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) on 30 Decemb
Original file (2,550 × 1,650 pixels, file size: 113 KB, MIME type: application/pdf, 4 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more