Raise the altitude to 28,000 feet, and add a night sky full of Nazi planes with guns blazing, and that barely scrapes the surface of what American bomber ... this week, B-17 The Movie Memphis ...

But did you know that the movie’s Memphis Belle steamboat inspired the name of the World War 2 B-17 bomber? Marking the film’s 83rd anniversary this week, Wayne’s estate posted the fact on ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 ...

The legendary B-17 Flying Fortress has been the focus of many movies and videogames. One of the oldest videogames centered around the famed bomber dates from 30 years ago. Called B-17 Flying ...

Perhaps missing from the conversation is how few Boeing B-17 bombers from the Second World ... but perhaps some on social media are forgetting too that movies and TV shows require a fair amount ...

Nearly 13,000 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were built by the U.S. for ... the 25-mission goal set by the Army Air Corps. A 1990 movie dramatized the feat, and while the aircraft itself is being ...