The prototype B-17, designated Model 299, was designed by a team of engineers led by E. Gifford Emery and Edward Curtis Wells and built at Boeing's own expense. It combined features of the experimental Boeing XB-15 bomber with the Boeing 247 transport airplane. The B-17 was armed with ...
A total of 17 ships were destroyed or damaged during the attack, although the majority of them were able to be salvaged and returned to active service. The U.S.S. Arizona is the onlybattleshipthat still lies at the bottom of the harbor. The U.S.S. Oklahoma and U.S.S. Utah were ...
Army Air Force as a B-17 bomber pilot. After his training, he was stationed at MacDill Field, Tampa, from Dec. 1943 through March, 1944. Afterward, he flew on 35 bombing sorties into enemy occupied territory in Germany and France from Thurleigh Air Field, England, from June 1943 ...
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Because of the bomber's role in the atomic bombings of Japan, its name has been synonymous with the controversy over the bombings themselves. The B-29 was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets. ENOLA GAYS CREW PHOTO ...
Being young and female was not a way to avoid execution, either. Here, teenaged Masha Bruskina is shown being executed for being accused of partisan activities. Two other men were hanged along with her. This photo shows the Bochnia massacre. Often, especially early in the war, the Germans...
TheB-24 Liberator. Though not as famous as the B-17, it was faster, carried more, and had a longer range. 13 of 75Geoffrey Morrison/CNET The Icon The famedB-17. Probably the most recognizeable bomber in history. 14 of 75Geoffrey Morrison/CNET ...
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* 747 CMCA – This variant was considered by the U.S. Air Force as a Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft during the development of the B-1 Lancer strategic bomber. It would have been equipped with 50 to 100 AGM-86 ALCM cruise missiles on rotary launchers. This plan was abandoned in favor ...
Pakistani Christians mourn as they attend a funeral for a blast victim of the March 27 suicide bombing in Lahore on March 28, 2016. Pakistan's army launched raids and arrested suspects after a Taliban suicide bomber targeting Christians over Easter killed 72 people including many children in a ...