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Description: Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" levels off for a run over target. Photo shows the chin turret with .50 caliber machine guns featured in later models. The B-17 weighed about 60,000 lbs., carried a bomb load of 6000 lbs., at a speed of approximately 300 miles per hour.
Title: B-17 on bomb run
Credit: http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/photo_galleries/aaf_wwii_vol_vi/Captions/012_B-17.htm (image with caption)
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