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  2. List of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress variants - Wikipedia

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    This resulted in remaining B-17E (and following F and G) aircraft being fitted with a manned Sperry ball turret. As many as 512 were built based on the USAAC's July 1940 order for B-17s. [8]) The B-17E production order was too large for Boeing alone, so Douglas and the Vega division of Lockheed joined Boeing in B-17 production. Boeing also ...

  3. My Gal Sal (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    Side view of My Gal Sal. On 27 June 1942, B-17E serial number 41-9032 named My Gal Sal—part of the 342d Bombardment Squadron of the 97th Bombardment Group—was one of 13 B-17s flying the Labrador-to-Greenland leg of a ferry flight to the United Kingdom as part of Operation Bolero, the military build-up in Europe.

  4. Swamp Ghost - Wikipedia

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    The Swamp Ghost is a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress piloted by Captain Frederick 'Fred' C. Eaton, Jr, that ditched in a swamp on Papua New Guinea during World War II, after an attack on ships at Japanese-occupied New Britain on February 23, 1942.

  5. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Memphis Belle (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    The crew back from their 25th operational mission. All were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.. The Memphis Belle, a Boeing-built B-17F-10-BO, manufacturer's serial number 3170, USAAC Serial No. 41-24485, was added to the USAAF inventory on 15 July 1942, [7] and delivered in September 1942 to the 91st Bombardment Group at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine. [8]

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  8. United States Army Intelligence Center - Wikipedia

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    AIT students training to become Systems Maintainers (42 weeks), Intelligence Analysts (16 weeks), Human Intelligence Collectors (19 weeks), Geospatial Intelligence Imagery Analyst (22 weeks), UAS Operators (23 weeks), and Special Agents with United States Army Counterintelligence, all receive training here.

  9. 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment (French: 17 e Régiment de Génie Parachutiste, 17 e RGP) is heir to the traditions of the 17th Colonial Engineer Regiment (French: 17 e Régiment Colonial du Génie, 17 e RGC) which fought illustriously during the Second World War .