In one of the most dramatic encounters of World War II, a lone B-17 Flying Fortress found itself under attack by eight agile ...

In the spring of 1945, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that would become the “Yankee Lady” was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps just as World War II was coming to an end. The aircraft ...

Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress was a hero in World War II. Today it can be seen in museums. A few even fly, but nowhere near ...

Boeing Plant No. 2, built in 1936, produced over 6,981 B-17 Flying Fortresses, along with other aircraft like the Boeing 307. The plant, initially 60,000 square feet, doubled in size by 1940 to ...

A rare airworthy B-17 bomber, “Sentimental Journey,” returned to Boeing Field to celebrate the Flying Fortress’s 90th anniversary with public tours, honoring its legacy and historic production.

The B-17 Flying Fortress was one of the main offensive weapons used during WWII. Here's who designed and built it, and where they were made.

HOLYOKE, Mass. (Tribune News Service) — Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York ...

For 60 years, a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress sat atop an Oregon service station, serving as a canopy for customers stopping to refuel.

EUGENE — A strong jerk and a plume of smoke served as a signal that the engines on the World War II B-17G Aluminum Overcast bomber had started up.

Michigan Flight Museum Sells Centerpiece B-17 ‘Yankee Lady’ Proceeds from the sale of the World War II bomber will be invested into support of the aviation museum.

A World War Two-era B-17 bomber trying to make an emergency landing at an airport near Hartford, Connecticut, crashed and burned on Wednesday, killing seven people on board and closing the airport ...

A Connecticut state official says seven people died in the crash of a World War-II airplane during an aborted takeoff from Hartford’s airport. The B-17 airplane crashed and burned Wednesday ...