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Photo of early B17's over NYC - 1930's
pipesmoker
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 01:29 AM UTC
http://tloepp.home.mindspring.com/covers/b17lg.html
I thought ya'll would enjoy this picture.
keenan
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 01:33 AM UTC
Great picture Ron. It is now my wallpaper.

Thanks.

Shaun
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 02:52 AM UTC
Neat how they used the Empire State Building as a support base for the one in the background! #:-)
pipesmoker
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 03:16 AM UTC
These must be real early ones, note the teardrop waist guns, no dorsal fin in front of the rudder and the rudder stripes.
AJ - kind of like a telephone pole growing out of the top of somenone's head in the family reunion picture.....LOL
Whiskey
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 05:50 AM UTC
Pre- Pearl Harbor B-17's. Probably circa 1940.
tazz
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 08:30 AM UTC
wow thats cool pics... thanks for telling us
modelcitizen62
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Posted: Monday, August 04, 2003 - 11:54 AM UTC
Tres cool pic Ron.

These are Y1B-17's (or YIB-17's?), probably with the HQ Air Force, doing their public relations duty. The unit, which included one Curtis LeMay among its pilots, did a number of PR gigs in the mid-late 1930's to put land-based air power in the public eye, including intercepting the Italian cruise liner Rex at sea and at least one mass "goodwill" flight to Central and South America.

Note the nose glazing, with the astrodome in the upper section and the undercut notch below -- pretty good signs of a YB-17.

Spectacular photo
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