B 17 bomber

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  1. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Reduction of heavy bombers into aluminum for household use, at air field at Kingman, rows of planes on flight strip, being dismantled, piles of motors and cylinders. 1947.
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  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman squeezing into turret of B-17E Flying Fortress. 1942.
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  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman poking his 50-cal. machine gun out of side window of B-17E Flying Fortress during WWII. 1942.
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  4. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Radio operator sitting at his apparatus aft of aerial gunner's position on B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  5. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman sitting inside B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  6. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Pilot and co-pilot sitting in cockpit of B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  7. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Pilot and co-pilot sitting in cockpit of B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  8. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman of B-17E Flying Fortress sighting the sun with his octant.
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  9. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Technical Sergeant making out report in B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  10. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman sitting at navigator's desk in back of bombardier's position in B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  11. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman manning machine gun in tail of B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  12. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Crewman of B-17E Flying Fortress manning gun in top turret.
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  13. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Pilot and co-pilot sitting in glass enclosed cockpit of B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  14. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Close-up of navigator in B-17E Flying Fortress.
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  15. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Bombadier and nose gunner Lt. William Witt in an American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber on its way back from bombing mission to Stuttgart, Germany, during WWII. 1943.
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