Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (English Wikipedia)

"LT COL Robert ROSENTHAL". 100th Bomber Group. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
"100th Bomb Group Foundation – Personnel – LT COL Robert ROSENTHAL". 100thbg.com. 100th Bomb Group Foundation. Retrieved 5 December 2016. Dec 1, 1944 – Feb 3, 1945 – 418th BS, 100th BG (H) ETOUSAAF (8AF) Squadron Commander, 55 hours, B-17 Air Leader 5 c/m (combat missions) 45 c/hrs (combat hours) 1 Division Lead (Berlin Feb 3, 1945, shot down, picked up by Russians and returned to England) Acting Command 4 Wing Leads, Pilot Feb 3, 1945 – BERLIN – MACR #12046, – A/C#44 8379

303rdbg.com

Susskind, Hal (February 1996). "20,000 Feet - Without a Chute The Alan Magee Story". Hell's Angels Newsletter. via: 303rd Bomb Group (H). Retrieved 30 November 2024.

398th.org

"43-38172". 398th.org. Retrieved: 24 January 2012.

447bg.com

"43-37756". www.447bg.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.

91stbombgroup.com

Powell, Hickman. "Another Triumph for Yankee 'Know-How'". Popular Science. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

aerovintage.com

"Surviving B-17s - Aero Vintage Books". 19 December 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
"Surviving B-17s - Aero Vintage Books". 19 December 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2024.

af.mil

nationalmuseum.af.mil

"Model 299 Crash, 15 November 1935". Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2024..
"Intercepting The 'Rex'". Archived 13 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.
"Boeing Y1B-17". Archived 16 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.
"Boeing B-17B". Archived 14 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.
"AAF Enters Combat from England". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
"Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
Parke, Sarah. "The Swoose comes home to roost at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force". National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012.
"Biography of Nancy Harkness Love". Archived 31 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 19 September 2012.

newpreview.afnews.af.mil

"Performances of B-17's invokes enthusiasm" (PDF), Air Corps News Letter, vol. XXI, no. 1, p. 7, 1 January 1938, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2015

af.mil

"Major General Allison C. Brooks". United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 10 February 2004. Retrieved 13 February 2008.

airandspaceforces.com

"Rise of the Air Corps". Air & Space Forces Magazine. 12 May 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2024.

airforce-magazine.com

Price, Alfred. "Against Regensburg and Schweinfurt". Air Force Magazine, Volume 76, Issue 9, September 1993. Retrieved: 18 December 2008.
Johnsen, Frederick A. "The Making of an Iconic Bomber". Air Force Magazine, Volume 89, Issue 10, 2006. Retrieved: 15 January 2007.
Eylanbekov, Zaur. "Airpower Classics: B-17 Flying Fortress". Air Force Magazine, February 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2008.

airforcemag.com

Meilinger, Phillip S. "When the Fortress Went Down". Air Force Magazine (Air Force Association), Volume 87, Issue 10, October 2004. Retrieved: 22 May 2010.

allexperts.com

en.allexperts.com

Vargas, John. "Question How many bomber flight crews completed their 25 missions to go home?" Archived 3 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine allexperts.com, 9 November 2010.

amcmuseum.org

"B-17G Flying Fortress – Air Mobility Command Museum". Retrieved 3 May 2024.

americanairmuseum.com

"41-24620 Snap! Crackle! Pop!". American Air Museum in Britain. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 30 November 2024.

archive.org

Morison 1950, p. 61 Morison, Samuel Eliot (1950). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 6. Boston: Little Brown and Company. ISBN 0-7858-1307-1. OCLC 10310299.
Levine, Alan J. (1992). The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. pp. 14–15. ISBN 0-275-94319-4.

archive.today

Nolan, Jenny. "Michigan History: Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy." Archived 4 December 2012 at archive.today The Detroit News, 28 January 1997. Retrieved: 7 August 2010.

arizonawingcaf.com

"B-17 Flying Fortress Crew Positions". Archived 2 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Arizona Wing CAF Museum. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.

atchistory.org

Schamel, John. "How the Pilot's Checklist Came About". Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Flight Service History. Retrieved: 22 May 2010.
Schamel, John "How the Pilot's Checklist Came About". Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Flight Service History. Retrieved: 22 May 2010.

awm.gov.au

"Anniversary talks: Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 2–4 March 1943". Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 24 August 2003.

b17flyingfortress.de

"Formation". b17flyingfortress, 8 April 2007. Retrieved: 18 June 2010.
"B-17: Best Airplane". B-17 Flying Fortress: Queen of the Skies. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.

b17queenofthesky.com

"B-17E page". B-17 Queen of the Sky. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
Lyman, Troy (12 May 2003). "B17 – Queen of the Sky – The B-17F". Troy Lyman's B-17 Flying Fortress Site. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.

boeing.com

"The Boeing Logbook: 1933–1938". Archived 8 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine Boeing. Retrieved: 3 March 2009.
"History:B-17 Flying Fortress". Archived 7 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine Boeing. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.

books.google.com

"Army's Biggest Bomber Has Rotating Nose". Popular Science Monthly, August 1937.
"Giant Bomber Flies Four Miles Per Minute". Popular Mechanics, October 1935.
"B-17 checklist". Life, 24 August 1942.
Ethell, Jeff. "Our Still-Flying Fortress". Popular Mechanics, Volume 162, Issue 1, January 1985, pp. 124–29.

cnn.com

Preuss, Andreas (17 May 2018). "Memphis Belle bomber newly restored and unveiled at US Air Force museum". CNN. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

collingsfoundation.org

"B-17 Flying Fortress to join CF". the Collings Foundation. 2015.

dailypress.com

Erickson, Mark St. John "Langley B-17s paved way for independent Air Force" Archived 16 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine Daily Press, 1 March 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

defense.gov

media.defense.gov

"GHQ Air Force: This strange arrangement in 1935 split the Air Corps into two camps—but it led the way to an independent Air Force Page 64-66" (PDF). Air Force Magazine. September 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2024.

detnews.com

info.detnews.com

Nolan, Jenny. "Michigan History: Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy." Archived 4 December 2012 at archive.today The Detroit News, 28 January 1997. Retrieved: 7 August 2010.

dtic.mil

oai.dtic.mil

Benitez, Nannette. "World War II War Production – Why Were the B-17 and B-24 Produced in Parallel?" Archived 5 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine Defense Technical Information Center, 1997. Retrieved: 1 July 2011.

apps.dtic.mil

Kuehl, Daniel T. (1992). The Radar Eye Blinded: The USAF and Electronic Warfare, 1945-1955 (Thesis). p. 30.

findarticles.com

Schollars, Todd J. "German wonder weapons: degraded production and effectiveness". Archived 19 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Air Force Journal of Logistics, Fall 2003. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.

flightglobal.com

"Flying Fortress (B-17G): A Survey of the Hard-hitting American Heavy Weight". Flight. 4 May 1944. pp. 473–76.
"Sperry's RPV Background". Flight International. 17 April 1976. p. 1006.

ghostarchive.org

"Why Use Colourful Camouflage in World War 2? – Assembly Ships". Youtube. Military Aviation History. 6 September 2018. Archived from the original on 23 November 2021.

historynet.com

November 1998, Brian Todd Carey (12 June 2006). "How Allied Air Attacks Evolved During World War II". HistoryNet. Retrieved 24 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Spinetta, Lawrence (November 2007). "Battle of the Bismarck Sea". World War II. ISSN 0898-4204. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
"The Surprising Story of Japan's B-17 Fleet". 26 January 2018.

homeofheroes.com

"MOH citation of Sarnoski, Joseph R". Archived 23 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Home of Heroes. Retrieved: 12 January 2007.

ibiblio.org

Ferguson, Arthur B. (1975) [1948], "Chapter 18: Rouen-Sotteville, No. 1, 17 August 1942", in Craven, W F; Cate, J L (eds.), The Army Air Forces in World War II, vol. I: Plans & Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, pp. 662–63 – via Hyperwar Foundation

imdb.com

"Trivia". IMDb. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
"Twelve O'Clock High (1949)". Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved: 16 January 2007.
"The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)".Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved: 16 January 2007.

m.imdb.com

"An American Romance (1944) - Filming & production - IMDb". IMDb.

indopacificimages.com

"The Complete Guide to the B-17F Black Jack WWII Wreck". Indo-Pacific Images. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

jetsprops.com

Bowman, Craig (25 December 2023). "The B-17 Tail Gunner That Kept On Fighting". Jets ’n’ Props. Retrieved 30 December 2024.

joebaugher.com

Baugher, Joe. "B-17 Squadron Assignments". Encyclopedia of American Aircraft, Last revised 9 August 1999.
Baugher, Joe. "Boeing B-17B Fortress". Encyclopedia of American Aircraft, 22 May 2010.

legendsintheirowntime.com

Kulick, Harold W. (May 1945). "Crash Landing". Flying. Vol. 36, no. 5. pp. 39–42. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

measuringworth.com

Johnston, Louis; Williamson, Samuel H. (2023). "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 30 November 2023. United States Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.

merkki.com

Williams, Kenneth Daniel. "The Saga of Murder, Inc" Archived 30 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine. World War II – Prisoners of War – Stalag Luft I. Retrieved: 31 August 2010.

mod.uk

raf.mod.uk

"Handley Page Halifax". RAF.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2019.

northstargallery.com

"Aviation Photography: B-17 Flying Fortress". Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Northstar Gallery, 16 January 2007.

nps.gov

"Second-Generation Norden Bombsight Vault". National Park Service. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

nytimes.com

"Army Bomber Flies 2,300 Miles In 9 Hours, or 252 Miles an Hour; New All-Metal Monoplane Sets a World Record on Non-Stop Flight From Seattle to Dayton, Ohio". The New York Times, 21 August 1935.
Mitgang, Herbert. "Books of The Times; How Both Sides' Artists Saw World War II" (review). The New York Times, 3 November 1990. Retrieved 19 May 2012.

oy-reg.dk

"OY Reg - OY-DFA". Retrieved 27 December 2020.

pacificwrecks.com

B-17E SN# 41-2656 at PacificWrecks.com or MACR report at Fold3.org

pbyrescue.com

"The B-17H "Flying Dutchman"". www.pbyrescue.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

pqarchiver.com

pqasb.pqarchiver.com

Wright, James G. "Durable B-17s hard for pilots to forget: Love for plane outweighs bitter memories of war" (requires subscription). Colorado Springs Gazette, 8 June 1994. ^{[dead link‍]}

reddog1944.com

"414th Squadron Planes and Crews circa 1943". reddog1944.com. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

smithsonianmag.com

Solly, Meilan (9 November 2023). "Watch the Trailer for 'Masters of the Air,' Steven Spielberg's Long-Awaited Follow-Up to 'Band of Brothers'". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 10 November 2023.

st.net.au

home.st.net.au

Nose art photos clearly shows "Chief Seattle", but often incorrectly reported as "Chief of Seattle"

stelzriede.com

"B-17 Pilot Training Manual (Formation)". Headquarters, AAF, Office of Flying Safety. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.
"Excerpts from B-17 Pilot Training Manual (The Story of the B-17)". Headquarters, AAF, Office of Flying Safety. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.

storyhouse.org

Hoffman, Wally. "We Get Our Feet Wet". Magweb.com, 2006. Retrieved: 18 July 2006.

taphilo.com

Philo, Tom. "Eighth Air force Combat Losses". Archived 31 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine taphilo.com. Retrieved: 19 May 2012.

telegraph.co.uk

"Obituaries: John Hereford". The Daily Telegraph. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2021.

thisdayinaviation.com

"Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner". Archives – This Day in Aviation. Retrieved 19 June 2021.

timesrecordnews.com

Choate, Trish. "Going from lucky in love to lucky to be alive in 1943". timesrecordnews.com. Retrieved 28 October 2016.

usaaf.net

McKillop, Jack. "Combat Chronology of the U.S. Army Air Forces: April 1945". usaaf.net. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2007.

utdallas.edu

"The Boeing B-17s" (PDF). utdallas.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2011.

valorstudios.com

"A Higher Call: autographed by JG 27 Bf-109 ace Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown of the B-17 "Ye Olde Pub"". www.valorstudios.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.

vintagewings.ca

"Polka Dot Warriors > Vintage Wings of Canada". www.vintagewings.ca. Vintage Wings. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

warbirdregistry.org

"Warbird Registry – Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress". warbirdregistry.org.

warbirdsnews.com

"WWII's B-17 All American: Separating Fact and Fiction". Warbirds News. 27 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

washingtonpost.com

Holley, Joe (28 November 2008). "WWII gunner 'Babe' Broyhill dies: Set record for downing Nazi jets". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 May 2010.

web.archive.org

"The Boeing Logbook: 1933–1938". Archived 8 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine Boeing. Retrieved: 3 March 2009.
"Performances of B-17's invokes enthusiasm" (PDF), Air Corps News Letter, vol. XXI, no. 1, p. 7, 1 January 1938, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2015
"Model 299 Crash, 15 November 1935". Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2024..
Schamel, John. "How the Pilot's Checklist Came About". Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Flight Service History. Retrieved: 22 May 2010.
Erickson, Mark St. John "Langley B-17s paved way for independent Air Force" Archived 16 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine Daily Press, 1 March 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
Schamel, John "How the Pilot's Checklist Came About". Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Flight Service History. Retrieved: 22 May 2010.
"Intercepting The 'Rex'". Archived 13 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.
"Boeing Y1B-17". Archived 16 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.
"World War II – General Electric Turbosupercharges". aviationshoppe.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
"Boeing B-17B". Archived 14 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 9 January 2007.
"B-17E page". B-17 Queen of the Sky. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
Lyman, Troy (12 May 2003). "B17 – Queen of the Sky – The B-17F". Troy Lyman's B-17 Flying Fortress Site. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
"Handley Page Halifax". RAF.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
"Obituaries: John Hereford". The Daily Telegraph. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
"Aviation Photography: B-17 Flying Fortress". Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Northstar Gallery, 16 January 2007.
"AAF Enters Combat from England". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
McKillop, Jack. "Combat Chronology of the U.S. Army Air Forces: April 1945". usaaf.net. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2007.
"Anniversary talks: Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 2–4 March 1943". Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 24 August 2003.
"The B-17H "Flying Dutchman"". www.pbyrescue.com. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
"History:B-17 Flying Fortress". Archived 7 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine Boeing. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.
"Polka Dot Warriors > Vintage Wings of Canada". www.vintagewings.ca. Vintage Wings. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
Benitez, Nannette. "World War II War Production – Why Were the B-17 and B-24 Produced in Parallel?" Archived 5 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine Defense Technical Information Center, 1997. Retrieved: 1 July 2011.
Schollars, Todd J. "German wonder weapons: degraded production and effectiveness". Archived 19 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Air Force Journal of Logistics, Fall 2003. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.
"Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
"US Coast Guard Aviation History: Boeing PB-1G 'Flying Fortress'". United States Coast Guard/ Retrieved: 18 June 2010.
"The Boeing B-17s" (PDF). utdallas.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
"WWII's B-17 All American: Separating Fact and Fiction". Warbirds News. 27 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
"43-37756". www.447bg.com. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
Williams, Kenneth Daniel. "The Saga of Murder, Inc" Archived 30 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine. World War II – Prisoners of War – Stalag Luft I. Retrieved: 31 August 2010.
Kulick, Harold W. (May 1945). "Crash Landing". Flying. Vol. 36, no. 5. pp. 39–42. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
Parke, Sarah. "The Swoose comes home to roost at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force". National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012.
"A Higher Call: autographed by JG 27 Bf-109 ace Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown of the B-17 "Ye Olde Pub"". www.valorstudios.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
"Biography of Nancy Harkness Love". Archived 31 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 19 September 2012.
"MOH citation of Sarnoski, Joseph R". Archived 23 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Home of Heroes. Retrieved: 12 January 2007.
"Major General Allison C. Brooks". United States Air Force. Archived from the original on 10 February 2004. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
"B-17 Flying Fortress Crew Positions". Archived 2 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine Arizona Wing CAF Museum. Retrieved: 16 January 2007.
Philo, Tom. "Eighth Air force Combat Losses". Archived 31 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine taphilo.com. Retrieved: 19 May 2012.
Vargas, John. "Question How many bomber flight crews completed their 25 missions to go home?" Archived 3 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine allexperts.com, 9 November 2010.

wga.org

directories.wga.org

"Masters of the Air". Writers Guild of America West. Retrieved 6 November 2023.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Spinetta, Lawrence (November 2007). "Battle of the Bismarck Sea". World War II. ISSN 0898-4204. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
Morison 1950, p. 61 Morison, Samuel Eliot (1950). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 6. Boston: Little Brown and Company. ISBN 0-7858-1307-1. OCLC 10310299.

ww2.dk

Holm, Michael. "890th Bryanskiy Bomber Aviation Regiment".

youtube.com

"Why Use Colourful Camouflage in World War 2? – Assembly Ships". Youtube. Military Aviation History. 6 September 2018. Archived from the original on 23 November 2021.
"B-17 assembly line, 1944". YouTube. 2 October 2018.

zeamerseagerbeavers.com

Hayes, Clint (23 February 2014). ""Old 666"/"Lucy" – A History". Zeamer's Eager Beavers. Retrieved 26 July 2018.