"The mightiest ever built"

"Why, it's a flying fortress!"

"Without the B-17, we might have lost the war."

"The plane can be cut and slashed almost to pieces by enemy fire and bring its crew home."

"This B-17 met a head-on attack by three Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighters. The gunners exploded two of them, and the top tur…"

"The tremendous impact of the crash tore off the propeller. It knocked the heavy bomber completely out of formation as…"

"It cut halfway through the wing, and then sliced a third of the way through the horizontal stabilizer. The top and ba…"

"Crews of nearby bombers watched the collision. They saw a tremendous explosion, and the bomber hurtling helplessly ou…"

"The old Queen hadn't blown up, and the crew was far from dead. The pilots struggled wildly in the cockpit, and someho…"

"And then they brought her all the way back to England, and scraped her down for a belly landing on the runway."