B-17 “Tour de Southern California”
Granted, a bicycle won’t help you here unless you are very brave and perhaps a little warped. But, for a B-17 Guy or Gal, it
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Granted, a bicycle won’t help you here unless you are very brave and perhaps a little warped. But, for a B-17 Guy or Gal, it
A bit of an obscure movie, and one that is perhaps a bit underrated, is the 1969 film “The 1000 Plane Raid.” Today, the cinematic
In 1959, novelist John Hersey’s The War Lover was published, creating the story of a volatile B-17 combat pilot who enjoyed his job just a
There was a time in the post-war period when the Navy was desperateto get its hands on B-17s…any B-17s anywhere…making it desperate enough to come
At the conclusion of World War II, the U.S. was the dominant air power, by far, over the rest of world’s military forces. That diminished
For the U.S. military, the Boeing B-17s was primarily operated by the Army Air Forces during World War II. A sizeable number of B-17s continued
In an obscure little corner of the B-17 story are the B-17s used by the air arm of the Dominican Republic in the late 1940s
The B-17 soldiered on with the Army Air Forces and, later, United States Air Force (USAF) after World War II ended in 1945. Though immediately
Looking back at some information I posted a few years ago on a B-17 News Page at the aerovintage webiste, I found this tidbit that
The B-17 had a long and distinguished utilization as an air tanker in the annual battle against forest and range fires fought in the U.S.
Way back in July 2015, I posted an image on my Aero Vintage B-17 News page sent in to me by noted author Steve Birdsall
The sudden end of World War II in August 1945 brought a tremendous upheaval to the American airplane manufacturers. Adjustments to contracts had already occurred
This is a bit of an old subject here at Aero Vintage Books, but I thought it worth revisiting. The first B-17Es rolled from the
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