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05-03-2008, 04:19 AM
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 | Miscellaneous B-17 Information Miscellaneous B-17 Information Miscellaneous B-17 Information A total of 12,731 B-17s were made. Of this total, 6,981 were manufactured by Boeing Aircraft, 3,000 by Douglas Aircraft, and 2,750 by Vega Aircraft (now called Lockheed-Martin). Below is a table showing the number that was made for each model: See link:
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | ||||||||||||||
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27-03-2008, 03:34 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | ||||||||||||||
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27-03-2008, 04:03 PM
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 | Interesting information. Thanks for the link. I hope to take a flight in one someday soon. The cost is around 450 -500 dollars for a 30 minute flight. I would love to get my uncle to take one last flight in before its too late. As I have said before he was a radio operator on a B-17G. Regards, Andy | ||||||||||||||
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27-03-2008, 11:41 PM
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 | Andy, in light of Davids question Wireless Operators do you know whether yor uncle used morse or radio most of the time?
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