Fortress of the Sky | B-17 Promotional Film (1943)
This colour promotional documentary film addresses what was needed to produce the B-17 Flying Fortress, covering everyone from Boeing researchers to factory workers.
"When news of a successful raid by the Flying Fortresses comes in, these are the people who get the biggest thrill.
The thousands of Boeing workers who build them.
They are the makers of flight.
With rivets and rivet guns, with hard-biting routers, with their own two hands.
In huge Boeing plants, out of tough metal, they forge America's fighting bomber.
The Army Air Forces take over.
And from the field she takes off to join the fighting forces.
The Flying Fortress.
Where did it all start?
How did America have this plane ready when the war came?"
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My Uncle Ivan was a waist gunner on a B-17 flying from England. He was a teenager then. He was a great talker, a great story-teller, and he stayed in the USAF for the next 40 years. But he never talked about his war.
My dad was a tail gunner in B-17's. Shot down on his 11th mission. Miss him.
I went up for a ride in a B-17 about 15 years ago. It was an amazing experience. My favorite part was sitting in the bombardier's seat in the nose; the view there is incredible.
My Uncle Ed flew these aircraft, he died last year 102 years old.
Wonderful history !
Quite on a roll lately! Gimme more!
Haha, this was great fun. Thanks. 👍
And 22 years after the B17s first flight, the first flight of the 707 and the jet travel revolution. (don't mention the Comet, this is the Boeing show)
@31terikennedy
10 ай бұрын
That's because the 707 was a better aircraft.
@billbolton
10 ай бұрын
@@31terikennedy yes
Try some AI remastering, it should clean up much better. This looks like grain removal at best.
😄 A very nice piece of propaganda and advertising. Too bad today's Boeing lost that old ability and agility to make incredible aircraft and spacecraft. 😢
Yeah it's a propaganda piece and all nations do it but some of those claims that they make are pretty strong for 1943 when B17s were getting absolutely creamed over Europe. I wonder how many in the audience at the time rolled their eyes. Thanks for the upload. Fascinating period piece on a legendary aircraft!
@31terikennedy
10 ай бұрын
What bomber wasn't?
A turkey shoot for the German airforce.
@terencephillips6833
10 ай бұрын
But they didn’t get all the turkeys did they otherwise we would all be talking German by now. Lancasters by night and Fortresses by day defeated Hitler and his Nazis , trouble is many innocents had to die under under bombing from both sides , well here in England anyway though not in the USA as far as I know .
@muttley8818
3 ай бұрын
@@terencephillips6833 As far as I know, the only part of the US to have air raids in WW2 was Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and that was just one day, on 7 December, 1941. Some false alarms. Remember reading something about Seattle getting warnings but no enemies were actually flying over.