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Why the B-17 became the bomber that crews would die for

The B-24 Liberator was faster and longer-ranged, but the B-17 Flying Fortress could take more punishment and bring its crew ...
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A B-17 Bomber Is Being Restored—After Years as a Gas Station Ornament!

The B-17G Flying Fortress that Art Lacey bought never saw combat in World War II—but spent decades overlooking a gas station in western Oregon. A particular Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, known today as ...
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This Day in History - August 28: Midair collision of B-17 Bombers

August 28, 1943 - Eight B-17F “Flying Fortresses” Bombers were returning to the Army Airfield Base in Harvard on Aug. 28, 1943 when three collided. One of the bombers crash landed and two were ...
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Slowly but surely, volunteers plan to make this WWII-era B-17 bomber fly again: 'This is not work; this is just fun'

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...
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Big bombers of WWII: / B-17 flying fortress/ William N. Hess

Previously published by Motorbooks International, 1993. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!770686 ...
Defense News

B-1 bombers, NATO fighters fly over Latvia to show unified force

U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer aircraft and Allied fighter jets flying in formation over the Monument of Freedom in Riga, Latvia, Aug. 19, 2025. The Bomber Task Force Europe exercise demonstrated NATO air ...