Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress

The US Eighth Air Force was based in England and the US Fifteenth Air Force was was in Italy both flew B-17s. The B-17F was one of the later variants and was the primary variant used by the US 8th Air Force over Germany from 1943 and, in total, 3,405 were built. The B-17 was responsible for dropping around 500,000tons of 1,500,000tons of bombs dropped on Germany during WWII.

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