B-17 Flying Fortress
There will never be another aircraft like the venerable B-17. Times have changed, war has changed, people have changed...
30m
Documentary, War
Directed by
Mike Thomas
,
Harold D. Rigg
Overview
The in-depth study of history's greatest combat bomber. Baptized in the aerial battlefields over Europe and Asia the immortal B-17 re-wrote the strategies of WWII. Exciting new footage from the prototype rollouts to the hell of combat, here is the definitive work, a video masterpiece, about the most battle-honored bomber in history.
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