Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
by Adam Romanowicz
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
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Adam Romanowicz
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Photograph
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Turning for home after a bombing run during World War II - this Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy strategic bomber completed a successful mission over Germany. The B-17 was primarily employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial, civilian, and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force based in England and the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy complemented the RAF Bomber Command's nighttime area bombing in Operation Pointblank, to help secure air superiority over the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for Operation Overlord.[4] The B-17 also participated, to a lesser extent, in the War in the Pacific, where it conducted raids against Japanese shipping and airfields.
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September 10th, 2009
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