B-17 Flying Fortress Photographs | World War II Database

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B-17 bombers amidst heavy flak fire over Merseburg, Germany, circa 1944-1945	Ground personnel standing by Dodge WC54 field ambulances as B-17G Flying Fortress with the 381st Bomb Group returned to its base at RAF Ridgewell, Essex, England, UK, 1943-1945

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses' vapor trails light up the night sky over Eastern Europe, circa 1945	View of the control tower at RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 1945. Note line of 91st Bomb Group “hack” aircraft: Piper L-4 Grasshopper, Noordyne O-64 Norseman, P-47 Thunderbolt, and Cessna UC-78 Bobcat.

B-17G Fortress with the 327th Bomb Squadron taxis for take-off at snow covered RAF Podington, Bedfordshire, England, UK for a morning mission to Gymnich Airfield; Jan 10 1945	B-17 Flying Fortress bomber having crash landed on a snowy field, Europe, 20 Jan 1945

Movie still of a B-17G Fortress with the 92nd Bomb Group flying from RAF Podington in Bedfordshire, England fitted with two Disney Bombs in underwing bomb racks, Feb 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	Movie still of a B-17G Fortress with the 92nd Bomb Group flying from RAF Podington in Bedfordshire, England fitted with two Disney Bombs in underwing bomb racks, Feb 1945. Photo 2 of 2.

Medical officer of the 535th Bomb Squadron, Capt Graham, congratulating pilot Lt Biene of B-17G Fortress ‘Stage Door Canteen,’ on the bomber’s 100th mission, 25 Feb 1945 at Ridgewell, Essex, England, United Kingdom.	The 401st Bomb Group’s control tower at RAF Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire, England, UK, Feb 26 1945. Note a US Navy Captain among the group of observers.

B-17 Fortresses of the 301st Bomb Group over the Italian Alps on their way to the rail yards in Vienna, Austria, 12 Mar 1945. Note the B-17 in the center with its ball turret replaced with the H2X ground scanning radar.	B-17G 'Big Yank' of the 483rd Bomber Group, circa 1945

War weary aircraft at the Wheeler Field graveyard (Waieli Gulch airstrip), Oahu, Hawaii, 4 Apr 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	B-17G Flying Fortress 'Wee-Willie' of 322nd Bomber Squadron of USAAF 91st Bomber Group losing a wing from flak fire over Stendal, Germany, 8 Apr 1945; 8 were killed; pilot and 1 crewman survived

B-17G Fortress of the 401st Bomb Group based at Deenethorpe, England on the ramp at Poltava, Ukraine alongside a B-24 Liberator and a C-47 Skytrain, 11 Apr 1945. Poltava was used by US bombers during Operation Frantic.	B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of USAAF 398th Bombardment Group on bombing run to Neumünster, Germany, 13 Apr 1945

B-17G Fortresses of the 546th Bomb Squadron drop their loads on the rail yards at Elsterwerda, Germany, Apr 19 1945. Note the smoke marker dropped by the lead aircraft signaling the remaining aircraft to drop their bombs.	A message from the starving people of Holland to the US Air Force for food drops during Operation Chowhound, early May 1945. The RAF ran Operation Manna that dropped even more food to the starving Dutch. Page 1 of 2.

B-17G Fortress “Liquid-8-Or” of 569th Bomb Squadron dropping cases of “10 in 1” rations into Holland during Operation Chowhound aimed at breaking the famine in western Holland, May 1 or 3 1945.	P-51D Mustangs of the 353rd Fighter Group in a line at a B-17 Fortress base of the 493rd Bomb Group, RAF Debach, Suffolk, England, UK, June 1945.