By Justin Hayward Boeing developed the B-17 starting in the mid-1930s as a replacement for the Martin B-10 bombers. It beat other manufacturers in this, having the aircraft flying in 1935. It offered a payload of 5,000 pounds and had a range of just over 2,000 nautical miles. The aircraft’s name, ‘Flying Fortress,’ was coined by […]

Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia during an Armistice Day ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding. Two days before, an unknown American soldier, who had fallen somewhere on a World War I battlefield, arrived at the nation’s capital from a military cemetery in France. […]

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million […]

Since 2009 a volunteer crew of historical aircraft enthusiasts has invested more than 60,000 hours in returning the City of Savannah to its 1945 combat configuration. Today, this Flying Fortress is the finest example of a restored B-17G. Experience this restored marvel as you gain greater understanding and appreciation of the teenagers and young men of the […]