Waist gunner of the American Eighth Army Air Force preparing his armour plated jacket before boarding a B17 flying fortress bomberat a base in...
Photograph of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress used by the United States Air Force during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century.
Photograph of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress used by the United States Air Force during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century.
Aerial view of a squadron of American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses from the US 8th Air Force Bomber Command, as they fly away from a bombing run at...
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress named 'Texas Raiders' taking-off through a cloud of black smoke with undercarriage retracting in the flying-display at...
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress named 'Nine-0-Nine' in the flying-display at the 1997 Confederate-Air-Force Airshow.
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress named 'Texas Raiders' in the flying-display at the 1997 Confederate-Air-Force Airshow.
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress named 'Sentimental Journey' with Betty Grable nose art in the flying-display at the 1997 Confederate-Air-Force Airshow.
Aerial view of B17 Fortress bombers of the US 8th Air Force plastering another Nazi fighter base at the Amiens-Glisy aerodrome in Northern France at...
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress four-engine heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force in flight combat box formation on a bombing...
Messerschmitt Factory Ain't. A Formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Army 15th Air Force drop a deadly load of bombs on the important Nazi...
Germany: B-17, Flying Fortresses of the U. S. Eighth Air Force drop their holiday greetings from open bomb-bay doors, high over Germany on December...
Germany: Protection In The Sky--This unusual photograph shows vapor trails from U.S. 8th Air Force fighters streaking through the skies above and...
One of the attacking B-17 flying fortresses of the United States Army 8th Air Force passes over the burning target area during an attack on the...
Pictured here for the first time is the new, high-powered Wright Typhoon turbine engine which Wright Aeronautical Corporation designed and is testing...
The white cloud is all that remains of a flying fortress which was hit by flak while enroute to the target. These U.S. Army 8th Air Force b-17 Flying...
Regensburg, Germany:Tucked away in a bend of the Danube near the Austrian border at Regensburg,the Germans had built a mammoth aircraft factory which...
Marienburg, Germany: Apparently secure in the belief that East Prussia was beyond the range of daylight bombers, German defenses were caught napping...
Smoke from fires and explosions rises upwards from the marshalling yards at Liege, a main target of the bombs of the B-17 Flying Fortresses of the US...
Smoke rises from Bettenhausen Ordinance Plant at Kassel, 110 miles north-west of Cologne, Germany as one of the attacking B 17 Flying Fortresses of...
An aerial view of United States Army Air Corps Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, of the 8th Air Force, embark on a bombing run during the Second World...
Despite heavy cloud cover, B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 12th US, Air Force blasted the railway yards at Genoa October 29, 1943.
Bombs from B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 15th US, Air Force on the railway bridge and yards at Bolzano November 14, 1943.
Sticks of bombs from B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 8th US, Air Force fall toward a railway center in the Dresden area of Germany April 17, 1945.
Parachute-carrying supplies for the Maquis during the Battle of France float to earth after leaving, the bomb bays of 8th US, Air Force B-17 Flying...
American B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 8th US, Air Force send their bombs plummeting toward rail installations at Bingen , December 29, 1944.
Flying Fortresses of the 15th Allied Air Force leave a blanket of vapor trails as they fly high over their target, the oil refinery at Regensburg,...
Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators of the 8th US, Air Force Bomber Command bombs docks and shipbuilding yards of Bremen .
Toulon harbor in German-held France after five minutes of concentrated bombing by US Army Air, Force B-17 Flying Fortresses on Nov 24, 1943.
Bombs fall over German installations at Stuttgart. As B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 8th US, Air Force complete a mission July 16, 1944.
The first bombs of the first squadron over Berlin February 3 are seen exploding as another cluster of bombs plunges toward the target, The 379th...
Aerial view of the explosions and fires raising from the Belgrade railway station, during a bombing of B-17 'Flying Fortresses" of the US 15th...
Two of the B-17 Flying Fortresses that were damaged by an explosion at RAF Alconbury May 27 sit on the flightline.
Concentration Camp Auschwitz, The allies bombed the I.G. Farben factories at Monowitz four times in 1944. 20th August, 1944. 127 B-17 Flying...
On November 16 Some British Flying Fortresses Of The Royal Air Force Bombing The Towns Of Duren And Julich Near Aachen In Germany.