Search Results: B-17 Flying Fortress

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...

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.

A U.S. P-51 Mustang fighter and B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The Mustang acted as a long-range fighter escort to the B-17 during bombing raids such as those over Germany in the latter stages of the...

Khotyn fortress is a complex of fortifications situated on the hilly right bank of the Dniester in Khotyn, Ukraine. It consists of a 13th-century stronghold and an 18th-century bastion surrounding it. It is one of the oldest preserved fortifications...

A photograph of USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses flying over Europe during the Second World War (1939-45).

A 1942-5 photograph of a gunner in the nose of a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber during the Second World 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 Boy with a Flying Squirrel, 1765, by Anglo-American painter John Singleton Copley (l. 1738-1815). The painting depicts Copley's half-brother Henry Pelham (l. 1748-1806), later a well-known engraver and cartographer, with his pet flying...

A flying shuttle, used in the textile industry to pull thread (weft) horizontally across longitudinal threads (the warp) on a weaving frame. The device was invented by John Kay in 1733 and greatly speeded up textile production. (Immigration...

The Flying Raven, Ex Libris for The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, lithograph on simili-parchment by Edouard Manet, 1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.