PORT ANGELES — Larry Owen kept the Flying Fortress flying during World War II. The B-17 heavy bomber was “something you could always depend on,” the 97-year-old Port Angeles man said. Like the ...
The B-24 Liberator was faster and longer-ranged, but the B-17 Flying Fortress could take more punishment and bring its crew home. With tighter formations and rugged design, the B-17 proved 80 percent ...
Maj. John “Lucky” Luckadoo, the last surviving B-17 pilot of the Eighth Air Force’s famed “Bloody Hundredth” Bombing Group, died in his home Sept. 1, his family announced. He was 103. “The Major left ...
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