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B-17G Flying Fortress Ball Turret
Woman Inside B-17G Flying Fortress Chin Turret
Installation of B-17G Flying Fortress Chin Turret
B-17G Flying Fortress Radio Gun Window
B-17E Flying Fortress Nose Turret Assembly
362nd B-17G Flying Fortress Comes Off the Production Line
362nd B-17G Flying Fortress Comes Off the Production Line
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B-17E Flying Fortress Tail Turret Prior to Body Join
B-17G Flying Fortress Nose
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B-17E Flying Fortress Nose Gun Installation
5,000th B-17 Flying Fortress Cockpit
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B-17G Flying Fortress with New Cheek Guns
B-17G Flying Fortress Waist Gun
B-17G Flying Fortress Waist Guns
B-17G Flying Fortress Chin Turret and Cheek Guns
Woman Inside B-17G Flying Fortress Chin Turret
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B-17G Flying Fortress Ball Turret
In response for the Army’s request for a large, multiengine bomber, the B-17 (Model 299) prototype, financed entirely by Boeing, went from design to flight test in less than 12 months. The B-17 Flying Fortress was a low-wing monoplane that combined aerodynamic features of the XB-15 giant bomber, and the Model 247 transport. The B-17 was the first Boeing military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit and was armed with bombs and five .30-caliber machine guns mounted in clear blisters. Each version of the B-17 was more heavily armed. Described by General H. H. Hap Arnold, as the backbone of our worldwide aerial offensive, the B-17 Flying Fortress served in every World War II combat zone. Boeing, Douglas, and Lockheed Vega produced 12,731 B-17s, and the four-engine bombers became legendary for their ability to stay in the air after taking brutal poundings.
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BI211748
Boeing ID
p4434
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5100px × 3950px 19MB
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Keywords
1940s
airplanes
ammunition/weapons systems
bombers
close-ups
dark
detail views
ground shots
head on views
historic production status
interiors
military
monoplanes
nobody
photos
power
propeller planes
scanned from film negative
structural systems
symmetry
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