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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber ... machine guns and one 0.30 in (7.62 mm) nose machine gun in the B-17C, to thirteen 0.50 in ...
The film's real star, however, was an RB-17B. It passed as a later model B-17D Flying Fortress, having had its machine gun blisters replaced and a lower "bathtub" ventral gun turret installed. Many of these aircraft can be seen in both ground and aerial scenes during the film. The "B" series Flying Fortress first flew on 27 June 1939.
This accounts for the 19 machine guns Zeamer referred to in a 1945 issue of The American Magazine. [13] 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 ...
The Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification for operational testing purposes of the B-17 Flying Fortress ... machine guns and ammunition nearly cut the YB-40 ...
The design was mainly deployed on the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator, as well as the United States Navy's Liberator, the PB4Y-1. The ventral turret was used in tandem in the Convair B-32, successor to the B-24. Ball turrets appeared in the nose and tail as well as the nose of the final series B-24.
These could range from a simple machine gun on a ball socket in the glazing of the cockpit windscreen (Ju 88), or similar mountings in the nose glazing (early B-17, B-24, G4M, Ki-48, Halifax, etc.), up to power operated manned turrets (late B-24, Avro Lancaster, Vickers Wellington), or even basic remotely controlled turrets such as seen on late ...
The bombers' machine gun fire downed the first fighter, but the second pressed its head-on attack against the All American. [3] Apparently struck by machine gun fire, the second fighter could not complete its roll to pull down and away from the All American, the pilot apparently having been killed or disabled.
The bomber had never been in a plan to be displayed, Dailey noted. A recommended condition of this transfer was that the National Museum of the United States Air Force transfer ownership of a restored B-17 to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center annex for display, as that museum otherwise lacked a Boeing B-17. [6]