THE B-17 FLYING FORTRESS (WEAPONS OF WAR S.)
Publisher: SPELLMOUNT PUBLISHERS LTD
Published: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781862271067
First sentence: In the spring of 1928 Clairmont J. Egtvedt, a vice-president of the Boeing Aircraft Company, boarded the carrier USS Langley, anchored in San Diego Bay, to confer with Rear-Admiral Joseph M. Reeves about the new Boeing F3B and F4B series of shipboard fighters, which were about to replace the earlier F2B in service with the US Navy.