#b-17f

[usafphantom2]

83 years ago today, the crew of the Memphis Belle returns from its 25th and last mission in a bombing raid against Lorient, a German submarine base. 🇺🇸

@JasonRBurt via X

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress Memphis Belle USAAF 41-24485 124485 DF-A by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress Memphis Belle USAAF 41-24485 124485 DF-A 324th Bomb Squadron 91st Bomb Group Photo Taken at USAF National Museum Wright-Patterson Base Dayton Ohio HAC_5792

[lonestarflight]

B-17 Evolution

Taken from Popular Science magazine August 1945 pages 92-93.

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[nocternalrandomness]

B-17 Nose Art

[pedroam-bang]

Red Tails (2012)

“From the last plane, to the last bullet, to the last minute, to the last man – we fight! We fight! WE FIGHT!”

[bmachine-blog1]

B-17F of 5 group, 26 squadron. Returning from a RAID on the Solomon Islands. At the bottom of the island Rendova. The machine had its own name "The Master's Curse". 05.10.42.

[hjmarseille]

The crew of a B-17F (42-31135) of the 562nd BS, 388th Bombardment Group are briefed for Noball Mission 221 over France on February 13, 1944. The officers in the center looking at the map (left to right) are bombardier 1Lt. Richard Donner, pilot 1Lt Dan Sullivan, and co-pilot 2Lt Robert Zapp.

Photo and caption featured in Osprey Air Campaign 5 Operation Crossbow 1944 Hunting Hitler’s V-weapons by Steven J. Zaloga

[usafphantom2]

B-17F “Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile” and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France, May 17 1943. This photo was taken from B-17 “Memphis Belle” on her last combat sortie.

@Voicesof WW2 via X