Why First Lieutenant Ewald Swanson's crew flew a B-17 by pulling bare control cables with their hands during WW2 —[...] ...

Boeing's Plant No. 2 in Seattle was the primary production site for the B-17 Flying Fortress, manufacturing 6,981 aircraft. During World War II, the factory was famously camouflaged with an elaborate ...

EUGENE — A strong jerk and a plume of smoke served as a signal that the engines on the World War II B-17G Aluminum Overcast bomber had started up. Inside, the machine gun turrets rumbled with the ...

What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during the Second World War. -Notably, the B-17 dropped ...