B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War (Combat Aircraft)

The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbor during the midst of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack. By the end of World War II (1939-1945), SB-17 rescue craft were saving combat crews in the waters off Japan. This book reveals why, to the public, the Flying Fortress was better known than the Spitfire, the Boeing 747, or Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis. The name recognition enjoyed by the B-17 was that company's reason for creating B-17 Steak Sauce and Osprey's reason to round out the saga of this great wartime aircraft. Beretter om amerikanske bombeenheder, der fløj med bombeflyet B-17 - den såkaldte "Flyvende Fæstning"--I Stillehavskrigen under 2. verdenskrig On 2 July 1941 the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) came into being under the command of Maj Gen Henry 'Hap' Arnold. Offers a history of the five bomb groups who operated the B-17 in the Pacific during World War II.