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How Many B-17 Flying Fortresses Are Left?

Built from 1936 to 1945, about 45 intact Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress remain. Today, less than 10 are estimated to still be airworthy. There were 12,731 B-17s produced in total, of which 4,735 were ...
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How Many B‑17 Flying Fortresses Were Built?

The bulk of the United States' industrial war effort in World War II went into the production of aircraft and naval vessels. The Army's vehicles, like tanks, were a comparatively small part of the ...
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Flying the B-17 Memphis Belle: An Ohio photographer's dream come true

Photographer Dan Patterson recalls his extraordinary 1990 flight aboard a B-17 bomber from the film "Memphis Belle" — and the ...
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Slowly but surely, volunteers plan to make this WWII-era B-17 bomber fly again: 'This is not work; this is just fun'

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...

80 years ago, a WWII B-17 bomber crashed in the Baltic. Scientists are finally learning who was onboard.

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...