Thursday
Jan212010
A B-17
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 6:30AM 
These are two of the engines from the B-17 Flying Fortress Return To Glory, which is displayed at March Air museum. The B-17 was the US Air Force bomber of choice in the European theater during WWII. The USAF used these aircraft for their daylight bombing raids on German manufacturing plants, to try and stop the German "War Machine". However these raids were not very successful and and suffered heavy loses. On the 14th October 1943 77 out of 291 B-17's along with 650 men from their crews were lost. In fact during that month of October 177 B-17's were lost.
Reader Comments (1)
What a magnificent picture of that old warrior, those two of four Wright Cyclone 9 cyl. radial engines, and the Hamilton propellers. Fantastic photograph.