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From Ford to Boeing: The Companies That Armed the Allies in WW2
31 Oct 2025 05:44 GMT
… War 2. The B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress bombers, both produced by … War 2. The B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress bombers, both produced by … 1960s.
Boeing Company
Notable weapons: B-17 Flying Fortress, B-29 Superfortress,
Boeing’s …
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The U.S. Labor Department dreams of an Aryan America
30 Oct 2025 16:15 GMT
… were in the 1940s, a B-17 Flying Fortress needed a 10-man crew … York Italian, with a Jewish bombardier doing the brain work, and …
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1st ever cloud seeding: How a freezer experiment in 1946 led to mankind’s first attempt to make artificial rain
29 Oct 2025 05:50 GMT
… in 1947 when a modified B-17 bomber released dry ice into a …
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American Airlines, Gary Sinise help WWII vets from Charlotte take a special flight
28 Oct 2025 16:58 GMT
… of his Uncle Jack, a B-17 bomber crew member. The museum recorded …
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AOPA Welcomes Charles Lynch to Board of Trustees
29 Sep 2025 19:53 GMT
… Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, and B-17 Flying Fortress. Lynch and his family owned … 1945 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, affectionately named She’s The …
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RI Veterans: Did you know? 30.10.25 (VETS SNAP Relief, Events, Health Ins, Resources) – John A. Cianci
30 Oct 2025 09:03 GMT
… a radioman/gunner whose B-17 was shot down over Germany … ; his units supported B-29 bombing missions. In January 1954 he …
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Virgil Scott — U.S. Army Air Corps
30 Oct 2025 05:44 GMT
… . It was a mission to bomb a target over Steyr, Austria … . As we were making our bombing run, we were attacked by … a flight engineer on a B-17, overseeing mechanical operations in flight … gun in combat. After his B-17 was shot on that fateful …
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Opinion: Resource consideration needed before war
30 Oct 2025 03:46 GMT
… Germany, over 3,000 Allied bombers struck the German port city … 1,000 British and American bombers took part in attacks … Lancaster bombers.
The Americans flew a total of 527 USAAF B-17 Flying … .
Plans for upgrading the bomber fleet include retiring the B …
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From POWs to pioneers: RIAHOF celebrates courage in the…
27 Oct 2025 14:20 GMT
… killed when his B-25 bomber was lost over China in … served as a B-17 radioman in the 327th Bomb Squadron during WWII … off in their B-25H bomber from Lingling, China, on a …
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Three things to know About Lynbrook’s first-ever poet laureate, Edward Field
… as a navigator in a B-17 bomber during World War II. His … ,” Mattson said. “He flew 25 bombing missions. It’s not likely …