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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engined heavy bomber plane used by the air forces of the United States and Britain during the Second World War (1939-45). The B-17 had unusually heavy defensive armament, 13 machine guns in total...

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. The largest of all Second World War (1939-45) bombers, B-29s were used to strike Japanese targets from the summer of 1944. In August 1945...

Linear B script was the writing system of the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. The syllabic script was used to write Mycenaean Greek from c. 1500 to c. 1200 BCE. It was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, and so...

A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944.

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The B-17 was the main US bomber in WWII in the European theatre of the conflict and saw service in the Middle East and Pacific amongst other places.

A photograph taken on 1 June 1945 showing a Boeing B-29 Superfortress flying over Japan on its way to bomb Osaka in Japan during the Second Wolrd War (1939-45).

A c. 1944 photograph of a group of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers carpet bombing - when the formation dropped their loads simultaneously.

A photograph of a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress over Schweinfurt, hit because of its ball-bearing factories in August and again in October 1943.

A group of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers over Schweinfurt, Germany. The target, hit in August 1943, was several ball-bearing factories crucial to the German war effort.

A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944. This B-29, called 'Doc', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying.