Production. B-17 heavy bomber. An Army sentry guards new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant. The ship will be delivered to the Army and the Navy after they have successfully undergone flight tests. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Seattle, 47.60383, -122.33006
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain