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B-17G Fortress History:

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber, considered the first truly mass-produced large aircraft. It was primarily employed in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and civilian targets. It also participated, to a lesser extent, in the War in the Pacific.

From its pre-war inception, the USAAC touted the B-17 as a strategic weapon; it was a potent, high-flying, long-ranging bomber capable of unleashing great destruction yet able to defend itself. The aircraft established itself as a superb weapons system, dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II. Of the 1.5 million tons of bombs dropped on Germany, 500,000 were dropped from B-17s.

Eighty-five B-17G Fortress were transferred to the Royal Air Force, where they were used as the Fortress III. They operated with two squadrons of Bomber Command's No. 100 Group RAF at RAF Sculthorpe, where they were used for electronic countermeasures missions to confuse and jam enemy radar. They were also used as decoys during night bombing attacks. They took part in various such operations until they were disbanded in 1945 July.