B-17 Flying Fortress
Subtitle: The Symbol of Second World War Air Power
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; McGraw-Hill
Published: March 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780071344456
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Aircraft: general interest; History of specific subjects; Military vehicles; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military Aircraft - World War II; History; History - Military / War; Transportation; Aviation - History; Military - World War II; Aerial operations, American; B-17 bomber; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: The airplane, a mighty marvel in the early 20th century, was a curiosity that prompted rural Americans to call from farm to alert distant neighbors that an "aeroplane" was flying in their direction.