Fortress of the Sky | B-17 Promotional Film (1943)
Channel: Armoured Archivist
Date: 2023-08-12

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?"