We recently watched the movie "The Cold Blue" about the B17's.
Highly recommend it.
Highly recommend it.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (Heavy bomber)
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Does look good. Nothing ground breaking, but gud nonetheless. Off to watch!
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Some bombs loaded into the bomb bay of a B-17.
From the angle of the camera they all look like they are standing on their nose.
Had me thinking that would not necessarily be a good thing.
Had me thinking that would not necessarily be a good thing.
Me too...until just now!
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Hell's Angels was a B-17F Flying Fortress who complete 48 missions without any crewman injured or being forced to turn back.
The USAF selected Hell’s Angels and its ground crew to return to the USA following the bomber’s completion of forty-eight combat missions. Touring stateside war factories in order to boost worker morale was the new assignment for the Hell’s Angels and its men. On 20 Jan 1944, the 303rd’s group commanding officer allowed anyone who wanted to to sign the Hell’s Angels before it left Molesworth (Australia) for the USA. Hundreds of men then blanketed the battle-scarred bomber with signatures in white paint.
On USA thousands of enthused individuals greeted them everywhere they stopped, and they spoke to just as many exhausted workers in the US war factories. The goal of the tour was to make those same workers toil harder. After a long journey and different stops, the tour ended at Los Angeles.
The USAF selected Hell’s Angels and its ground crew to return to the USA following the bomber’s completion of forty-eight combat missions. Touring stateside war factories in order to boost worker morale was the new assignment for the Hell’s Angels and its men. On 20 Jan 1944, the 303rd’s group commanding officer allowed anyone who wanted to to sign the Hell’s Angels before it left Molesworth (Australia) for the USA. Hundreds of men then blanketed the battle-scarred bomber with signatures in white paint.
On USA thousands of enthused individuals greeted them everywhere they stopped, and they spoke to just as many exhausted workers in the US war factories. The goal of the tour was to make those same workers toil harder. After a long journey and different stops, the tour ended at Los Angeles.
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Women in the production of B-17 routing cables at the Boeing Aircraft Plant, Seattle.
Interesting the bomber crews' uniform is blue.
Wasn't until around '49 when the Air Force became it's own service did uniforms change.
Photoshop error or an early new look?
Wasn't until around '49 when the Air Force became it's own service did uniforms change.
Photoshop error or an early new look?
They both are wearing rings. I bet their men are over seas.Women in the production of B-17 routing cables at the Boeing Aircraft Plant, Seattle.
Good catch. I think, during the war, they were not the USAF … but the US Army Air Corp. and they wore Army olive drab.Interesting the bomber crews' uniform is blue.
Wasn't until around '49 when the Air Force became it's own service did uniforms change.
Photoshop error or an early new look?
I suspect it's just a colorization of a black & white photo.
And not a very good one at that.
And not a very good one at that.