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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in vlucht

'End of a Fortress. A B-17 Flying Fortress of the U.S. Army 8th Air Force goes down over Germany with fuel tank blazing, during an attack on oil targets at Merseburg. Other targets for the day included synthetic oil plants at Lutzkendorf, Bohlen and Zeitz, and a marshalling yard in the Searbrucken area.'

silhouet Fortress I van meerdere zijden

Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper. 'ENEMY-CUT WINDOW IN FORTRESS TAIL ASSEMBLY. Nineteen-year-old tail gunner Sgt.F/W. Fayette, Manchester, N.H., looks through the jagged hole in the tail assembly of his B-17 Flying Fortress, the work of a German fighter over Steyr, Austria. In spite of this damage, the Fortress continued on its mission. Fayette, who stuck to his guns, ...

Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten'), bommenwerper, van de U.S. Army. 'Fortress of the clouds. An American Army Fair corps 'Flying Fortress' winging its way through banks of clouds 13,000 feet over Dayton, Ohio, during manoeuvres. This type of Army plane is powered by four engines and is covered at every vulnerable point by a gun-turret in the nose, in the sides, on top and beneath the fuserage, ...

Capitulation of the Fortress of Modlin. Entering of German engineers as the first german forces in the fortress of Modlin.

Een Boeing 'B-17 Fortress II' ('Vliegende Forten') bommenwerper. 'Flying fortresses pass through flak over Ploesti. B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 15th U.S. Air Forces fly through an intense flak barrage put up by anti-aircraft defenses at Ploesti, Rumania, during an attack on the Nazi oil refineries Juli 15, 1944. The column of smoke seen at left reached a high of 23,000 feet and was still visible ...

U.S. Flying Fortresses blast German communications center. Bombs cascade from the bomb bays of Flying Fortresses of the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force during a heavy attack on Muenster, Germany, (1943) a key junction for German military railroad supply routes in Western Europe. During the attack, which seriously disrupted German communications facilities at Muenster, 18 German planes were shot down.