225 items in this album on 12 pages.
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Four WASP pilots in training in front of B-17 bomber 'Pistol Packin' Mama', Lockbourne, Ohio, United States, circa 1943-1945 | Overhead view of B-17H bomber in flight, Aug 1943-Jan 1947 | Two US B-17G Fortress aircraft of the 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Bomb Squadron in formation, Sep 1943-Oct 1944 | US B-17G Fortress aircraft 'Pistl Packin Mama' of the 91st Bomb Group, 324th Bomb Squadron based at RAF Bassingbourn, England, United Kingdom, 1944 |
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USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress bombers dropping supplies for French resistance fighters, Vercors, France, 1944 | WASP pilot Dawn Seymour at the controls of a B-17 Fortress, circa 1944, location unknown. | B-17F Fortress flying over Monte Cassino as smoke rises from the abbey, Feb 15, 1944. | B-17G Fortress 'Silver Dollar' of the 384th Bomb Group over Berlin with its tail section knocked off from bombs falling from a higher bomber group, 9 Mar 1944. 8 were killed and 2 were taken prisoner. |
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B-17 bomber of US 447th Bomb Group in flight toward Frankfurt, Germany, 20 Mar 1944 | Overhead view of B-17 Fortress bombers flying from Italy on a raid to bomb the rail yards at Weiner Neustadt near Vienna, Austria, Apr 1944. | SSgt Norman A Sampson from the 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group in the ball turret of a B-17 Fortress; RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, Apr 1944 | B-17G Fortress of the 728th Bombardment Squadron after making a forced landing 8km west of Schillig, Germany due to flak damage over Rostock, Apr 11, 1944. All 10 crew members survived and were taken prisoner |
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Battle damaged B-17G Fortress “Bertie Lee” after belly landing at RAF Waltham (Grimsby), Lincolnshire, England following a mission to Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), 11 Apr 1944. See comment below for details. | Actress Vivian Leigh speaks to the 381st Bomb Group at Ridgewell, Hallstead, UK during the christening ceremonies for B-17G “Stage Door Canteen,” 21 Apr 1944. Also present were actors Alfred Lunt and Laurence Olivier. | Mary Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, holding up a bottle of Coca-Cola just before she cracked it over the machine gun barrels of the B-17G “Stage Door Canteen” as a christening, 21 Apr 1944 at Ridgewell. | Mary Churchill, daughter of the Prime Minister, speaks to the 381st Bomb Group at Ridgewell, Hallstead, UK during the christening ceremonies for B-17G “Stage Door Canteen,” 21 Apr 1944. |
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This B-17F Fortress, converted to an armed supply aircraft, had a wheel collapse during an emergency landing at Tadji Field, New Guinea and slid into the bomb dump, May 5, 1944 | Crew bails out of damaged B-17F Fortress “Patches” at 22,500 feet over Wiener Neustadt, Austria, 10 May 1944. 8 of the crew became POWs and the other 2 were killed. Note 2 right engines feathered | German Me 410 aircraft attacking a B-17G bomber of US 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group over Brüx, Czechoslovakia (now Most, Czech Republic) May 12 1944; photo taken from the B-17G aircraft “Lady Godiva” | WC-54 ambulances at RAF Kimbolton, England waiting as returning B-17 Fortress bombers of the 379th Bomb Group fly overhead, May 13, 1944 |
225 items in this album on 12 pages.