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  2. 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.

  3. List of surviving Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, [ 1 ] [ a ] including 38 in the United States with many preserved in museum displays.

  4. Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby - Wikipedia

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    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. A B-17G-35-BO, serial number 42-32076 , and manufactured by Boeing, it was named by her crew for a song of the same name made popular by The Andrews ...

  5. What we know about the B-17 Flying Fortress, P-63 ... - AOL

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    Boeing built 6,981 B-17s; another 5,745 were built by Douglas and Lockheed under a collaborative effort, according to Boeing. A B-17 with 13 people aboard crashed at a 2019 air show in Connecticut ...

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

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    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 built a new production plant, and Douglas added one specifically for building B-17s. One of the Vega-built aircraft was later converted to the XB-38 Flying Fortress, which remained a single prototype.

  7. USAAF unit identification aircraft markings - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. The Pink Lady (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    The Pink Lady is the nickname of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber, serial number 44-8846, which flew several missions for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) over Nazi Germany near the end of World War II.

  9. Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress No. 44-83690 - Wikipedia

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    Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress No. 44-83690 is a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber currently undergoing restoration at the Museum of Aviation near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. It was built as a B-17G-95-DL by the Douglas Aircraft Company and delivered for use on May 9, 1945.