Quotes About B-17

The most notable prizewinner on This Is My Story was 13–year-old Louise Applewhite, who appealed to President Roosevelt because the hospitals in her hometown were so packed with polio victims that she could not get proper treatment. Roosevelt sent a B-17 and a medical crew at once to fetch her to his Warm Springs Foundation. This show was replayed on the series in April 1945, the Saturday after Roosevelt's death.

Three hundred and eighty-eight B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators from three divisions of the Eighth Air Force were headed to Norway that morning.

In 1943, Benny made his first USO tour overseas. In Benghazi, in North Africa, a B-17 crew painted some words on a bomb: To ADOLF HITLER—WITH LOVE IN BOOM.

Soon he was assigned to fly the B-17. The four-engine, long-range bomber had an arsenal of machine guns and could take punch after punch and still deliver its bomb load—over ninety-six hundred pounds. Crewed by ten men, the B-17 was known as the Flying Fortress and was a giant in the sky.