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Postwar B-17 Flying Fortress: The Survivors
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791:Crenshaw, Wayne (August 28, 2015).
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54:Boeing B-17G-95-DL Flying Fortress
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151:less than 50 surviving examples
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180:South Plains Army Air Field
168:Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
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900:at museumofaviation.org
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464:. London: Putnam, 1966
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938:B-17 Flying Fortress
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1311:Nine-O-Nine
1277:Yankee Lady
1249:Swamp Ghost
1136:USAAF units
1007:CB-17/VB-17
386:Description
316: /
292:Coordinates
188:Pyote Field
1441:Categories
1426:See also:
1360:Bally B-17
1263:The Swoose
1214:My Gal Sal
1000:Transports
573:2016-05-01
553:2016-05-01
530:References
304:83°35′16″W
301:32°35′24″N
1382:Air Force
1170:Survivors
1148:Survivors
1131:Operators
1065:Airliners
1035:F-9/FB-17
649:. WMAZ-TV
440:missions.
203:Kwajalein
190:, Texas.
170:assigned
105:, Georgia
1414:Fortress
1369:In media
1353:Replicas
1288:Historic
1179:44-83690
1153:Variants
653:19 March
626:19 March
392:44-83690
368:nose art
336:93000540
250:44-83690
207:Enewetak
116:44-83690
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1318:Old 666
1228:Sally B
967:Bombers
867:WMAZ-TV
157:History
82:History
1416:(2012)
1408:(1990)
1400:(1949)
1392:(1944)
1384:(1943)
1125:(2022)
1119:(2019)
1113:(1946)
1107:(1945)
1101:(1943)
1095:(1943)
1081:Topics
1044:Drones
940:family
935:Boeing
647:13WMAZ
73:Serial
1019:C-108
984:YB-40
979:XB-38
953:XB-15
568:(PDF)
559:Note:
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436:gear.
394:is a
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1051:CQ-4
1014:C-75
974:B-17
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655:2017
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