In 1943, a battered B-17 Flying Fortress sat in a scrapyard, written off after repeated combat damage and burdened with the ...
During World War 2, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress became the public face of America’s bombing campaign, but another heavy bomber quietly matched and often surpassed it. The Consolidated B-24 ...
Underwater archaeologists have located a World War II B-17 in the Baltic Sea, and recovered artifacts may help identify the ...
Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...