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'The Metal Detector' Reunites Descendants of a B-17 Crew Shot Down in World War II
On May 29, 1944, an American B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Miss Ponnie" crashed while on a bombing mission over Nazi-occupied Austria. Georg Reutter's mother watched the plane go down from her ...
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Boeing B-17: Was the ‘Flying Fortress’ the Best World War II Bomber?
The B-17 Flying Fortress Was a Quantum Leap in Aviation ... As a result there was a push from the Navy to scale down the production – reducing the first series model, the B-17B to just thirty ...
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A World War II Veteran Compares a Lifetime of Dancing to Flying a B-17 Flying Fortress
Stuart Hodes had one of World War II's most dangerous jobs: flying bombing runs over Occupied Europe in a B-17 Flying Fortress ... I didn't like being shot at. Who the heck would?" ...
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B-17 that went down in Dallas mid-air crash was 'meticulously maintained,' according to man who previously flew it
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Bell P-63 Kingcobra that went down in Saturday’s crash belonged to the CAF, which also put on the air show. Hecker is currently is a senior medical ...
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AFSBn-Benelux takes part in 80-year commemoration of downed WWII B-17 bomber, crew
EYGELSHOVEN, Netherlands – On Oct. 14, 1943, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17F Flying Fortress heavy bomber ... targets in central Germany was shot down by a Nazi fighter aircraft and crashed in ...