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At their peak there were 669 B-17 crews stationed in the Mediterranean theater. From bases around Foggia, the Fortresses engaged in long-range strategic bombardment of enemy military, transportation and industrial targets in the Balkans, Italy, Austria, France and southern Germany as part of the United States' air offensive against Nazi Germany ...
This list of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress operators is a list of users who flew and operated the Boeing B-17. The B-17 was among the first mass-produced four-engined heavy bombers. A total of more than 12,000 were made, making its use as a heavy bomber second only to the B-24 Liberator .
Hendricks Army Airfield is a former United States Army Air Forces base. It was used during World War II as a Heavy Bomber Training School for B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator pilots. It was under the jurisdiction of the 76th Flying Training Wing (Specialized 4-Engine), Smyrna Army Airfield, Tennessee.
Reactivated as Lincoln AFB, 1952-1966; partly reverted to Lincoln ANGB, 1966–Present. Has been active as a military base since 1941. Joint-use civil airport/military air base since 1952. McCook Army Airfield: B-17/B-24/B-29 Bomber training II Bomber Command Second Air Force 520th Operational Training Unit (B-17/B-24) 17th Bombardment Training ...
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.
The base was redesignated the 19th Combat Crew Training School' late in 1943, and then replaced on 30 March 1944, by the 236th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School). Known B-17 units trained at Pyote AAB were: 381st Bombardment Group (Heavy) 3 January - 5 April 1943; 96th Bombardment Group (Heavy) January - March 1943
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Classified as a heavy bombardment group, the 91st operated Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft and was known unofficially as "The Ragged Irregulars" or as "Wray's Ragged Irregulars", after the commander who took the group to England. [1]
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Washington for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of Second Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force ...