Battle Damaged Boeings

[Jack Cook]

[ZRX61]

That right there is why you couldn't pay me to fly on a plastic Scarebus..

[Pat Carry]

Amazing photos!

[Indian head]

That right there is why you couldn't pay me to fly on a plastic Scarebus..

Aww, that's a shame; I had a spare ticket for the composite 787's first revenue flight...I'll just have to give it to somebody else instead

[Mgawa]

Very strong machine!!!

[avenger2504]

I feel sorry for the ball turret gunner in one shot! Wonder if he survived?

[Holedigger]

That interior shot of the gutted waist (and the outside shot of the port side shattered ball) is "Little Miss Mischief", an that is why she needed and got a new tail. She flew some more combat missions until her luck really ran out. If I read correctly, one waist gunner and the ball turret gunner were slightly injured, with the ball gunner also getting some frostbite on the way home. Says a lot for luck and the strength of the airframe.

[Second Air Force]

My dad always told me he'd much rather spend time in a foxhole than in an airplane when the lead and shrapnel was flying.

Scott

[Jack Cook]

I've got some others that are just brutal and you'd can well imagine the outcome

[Chris Brame]

Is the 724 on the bulkhead part of the Vega c/n (which I think would be 7245)?

[RAMC181]

Is the 724 on the bulkhead part of the Vega c/n (which I think would be 7245)?

Yes, that's the contract number.
There's an example of using a similar partial view to identify another B-17 in the Chuckie Restoration thread.

All the best,
PB

[Obergrafeter]

Somewhere you know ol Gary is saying "That ought to buff right out"

[bdk]

Boeing built them strong back then, and builds them strong to this day.

[tom d. friedman]

those pics are a testimonial to u.s. expertise & quality in manufactoring & design.

[Holedigger]

...and the brave aircrews who brought them home on a wing and a prayer!