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Flying the B-17 Memphis Belle: An Ohio photographer's dream come true

Photographer Dan Patterson recalls his extraordinary 1990 flight aboard a B-17 bomber from the film "Memphis Belle" — and the ...

80 years ago, a WWII B-17 bomber crashed in the Baltic. Scientists are finally learning who was onboard.

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...
The New York Times

John H. Luckadoo, Last Pilot From a Storied Bomber Group, Dies at 103

As part of a unit known as the Bloody 100th, he flew 25 harrowing missions in his B-17 bomber over German-held territory during World War II. By Clay Risen John H. Luckadoo, the last surviving pilot ...
Stars and Stripes

WWII B-17 flies into Boeing Field on 90th anniversary of first flight of Flying Fortress

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...