The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Middle East, North Africa. 21 November 1941. General E. E. Adler of the United States Army Air Force, who, as Chief of the Air Section of the United States North African Mission, is now in the Middle East. His long experience includes three years with the heavy bombardment group, Chief of Staff at the maintenance command, engineering and supply activities of the American Air Force, and twenty four years of flying. Of particular interest is his knowledge of the Boeing Flying Fortress, largest and most powerful of the American bomber aircraft in service with the RAF in the Middle East.
Leghorn, Italy. 21 June 1943. All the bombs from a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft of the United States North West African Air Forces attacking Italy's largest oil refinery, fall in the ta
Leghorn, Italy. 21 June 1943. Bombs from a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft of the United States North West African Air Forces fall towards a large oil refinery.
Western Desert, North Africa. 29 November 1941. One of the American Boeing Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, code no. WP, serial no. AN532, operating in the Middle East campaign on the ground. These gi
Informal portrait of Sergeant Wilbur E Brown, United States Army Air Corps, a radio operator on a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft who is credited with saving the lives of two other members
BOEING B-17 "FLYING FORTRESS", SERIAL 12598. AMERICAN IDENTIFICATION OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH, 20878 AC. (PRESUMABLY AIR CORPS).
United States of America Air Force Boeing B17F Flying Fortress (serial number 42-2981) decorated with nose art. This aircraft completed over forty missions before being badly damaged in an accident on
