SEATTLE — A B-17 Bomber aircraft, an icon of World War II, made quite the impression on its flight into Seattle on Monday. Like the aircraft's name, it is a 'sentimental journey' for both the aircraft ...
The B-17G Flying Fortress that Art Lacey bought never saw combat in World War II—but spent decades overlooking a gas station in western Oregon. A particular Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, known today as ...
SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...
The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...
Producing the plutonium fuel for atomic bombs was not the only contribution Hanford made to fighting World War II. In 1944, workers at the nuclear reservation each chipped in to buy a Flying Fortress ...