The 3rd Air Division ordered its B17 Groups to attack the Venlo AirField, Handorf Airfield and the Twente/Enschede Airfield while it would send its B-24s to the Florennes/Juzaine Airfield.

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress; Production block number: B-17G-5-VE; Manufacturer: Boeing; Markings & paint scheme: Olive drab/ gray camouflage. Coded EP-E (Hang the Expense II); EP-Z (Boeing Belle).

May 21, 2017 · Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress Notes: The airfield at Venlo, Holland is bombed by 104 of 298 B-17s despatched by 3rd Bomb Division. The exact Group(s) that made the attack have not yet been documented here, but 1 B-17 from 385th BG is MIA.

B-17 #42-29884: Delivered Denver 4/3/43; Patterson 8/4/43; Eglin Fd 16/4/43; Dow Fd 19/4/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-D] Alconbury 23/5/43; force landed base with friendly fire damage with Lopez Mantou 9/6/43; then transferred 326BG [JW-D]; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Capt Hans Johnson, Co-pilot: Don Weir, Navigator: Bob Doolan ...

Ordered to intercept a lone B-17 north of their base at Venlo, Fahnenjunker-Feldwebel Gottfried Otto and Oberfeldwebel Heinz Kemethmüller were attacked by a swarm of P-47D Thunderbolts.

Eight hundred and forty-three (843) tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs were dropped on enemy targets which include Venlo, Hamburg, Berlin, Ludwigshafen, Bremen, Magdeburg, Munster, Merseburg; as well as Szolnok, Hungary and the supply mission to Warsaw, Poland.’

The B-17 Flying Fortress entered service in 1938 and quickly became a symbol of American air power during World War II. It was used extensively in daylight bombing raids over Europe, aiming to cripple German war production and infrastructure.

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.It is the third-most produced bomber of all time, behind the American four ...

This is listing of surviving B-17 aircraft registered by the FAA in 2022, noting the status for each (which is periodically updated, per cited sourcing). Bold denotes a plane that is airworthy at that time, excluding planes that have not been flown for more than five years.

Apr 8, 2024 · The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engined heavy bomber plane used by the air forces of the United States and Britain during the Second World War (1939-45). The B-17 had unusually heavy defensive armament, 13 machine guns in total in some models.