Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

This weekend the B-17 “Flying Fortress” replica of the famous World War II icon, ‘Memphis Belle’ will be offering rides at DeKalb Peachtree Airport. The Boeing B-17 is by far the most famous bomber of World […]

Today’s picture is another 4×5 Kodachrome transparency taken by Alfred Palmer in October 1942. Workers installing fixtures and assemblies in the tail section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long […]

  May 1942, Langley Field, Virginia, YB-17 bombardment squadron. Testing of the machine guns on the YB 17 Flying Fortress at the Army’s testing facility in Langley, Virginia. Founded in 1916, Langley Field was the […]