B-17 Flying Fortress. The American Mighty Bomber Of WW2. Upscaled HD Documentary

Is this the aircraft that was in the very dramatic scene out of "The Best Years of Our Lives"?

Good but not as good as some other videos. All original footage and some different points such as after the war used as targets for new missile testing. Thanks for sharing.

Hero's all, who flew in this inadequate aircraft. Along with the Norden bomb sight.

Studbreaker!! Good lord pretty sue you meant Studebaker how did no one catch that!!!! If that had occurred at the beginning of this video I'd have moved on

Lot of clipped out audio makes this not as enjoyable a video to watch as it could be. What happened?

Awesome Presentation! Great magnificent Aircraft: the B-17!

Excellent video. I love the B-17 Flying Fortress , one of my favorite aircraft. It was so nice to see B-17G Sentimental Journey again. She was at the Hamilton Ontario Airshow in 1993 along with another Flying Fortress and many other WW2 aircraft. That wartime footage which I have seen in other documentaries was cool to see as well. Well done thanks DroneScapes 😊👍

8.200 chasseurs allemands abattus par les forteresses et le libérators
durant la seconde guerre mondiale 8 eme air force
respect

Excellent! Looking forward to watching your other videos.

50mm guns? Ooof, what a huge mistake

Well done!

This is a well put together and very well researched production by the creator of this video. So it begs the question of why he would make such a cringe worthy error (twice) of identifying the armament of the B-17 as 50 millimeter machine guns instead of 50 caliber machine guns. There's a big difference. A 50 caliber bullet is only around 12.7 millimeters. Large automatic weapons whose ammunition is in the millimeter size are generally referred to as cannons, i.e., 20mm cannon, 37mm cannon, etc. Something firing a 50mm projectile would clearly be well beyond what would be called a machine gun.

My stepfather would be proud of this. He was a B-17 pilot. He was 23 on his 23rd mission flying out of Italy and was shot down over Austria in tail number 911 and was the only one to make it. He was injured and caught by the Austrian youth and was in a German Red Cross unit for 6 months. Pow for the rest of the war. He was a sock boy portrayed in the great escape. He was there. He flew B-29’s during Korea. Had ptsd for life. He’s at rest now in Arlington National cemetery.
His name was Major John Thomas Farrington

Can anyone tell me the name of the music? The video is fantastic thank you!

Great Video.. New Sub!

A lovely aircraft of course and fine engineering but dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was a major war crime. The USA is in no position to preach to any nation on this planet ever again about war crimes. The USA has committed the greatest war crimes of the last 100 years and got away with it. How, I do not know.

Stud Breaker engines?

My Dad was a navigator on a B17 . I was at work and heard a loud prop job and looked up and it was a B17 that had just taken off from our local airport.

B-17s would run out of fuel returning from Germany and ditch in the English Channel. My dad flew 35 nighttime missions.

The sequence of developments is slightly wrong - the B-17G chin turret was pioneered on the B-40 escort, then adopted on the mainstream bombers, along with the B-40's innovation of staggering the waist-gunners to give the crew more room to operate.

For the airplane, being as massive as it is it's incredibly small on the inside

To have been part of the emerging technology of the time must have been mind-blowing. I was U.S.A.F. during Vietnam in an Air rescue unit and the aircraft I served on are by now obsolete, but at that time, the UH-1was cutting edge.

PLEASE stop with the annoying background music! Otherwise great video

And so the term "going the whole 9 yards" was born, the length of the 50cal belt's.

I've got to be inside of a still working B-17 in the 90's. It's called the Sentimental Journey, I think?

55 millimeter machine guns? Come on guys?

This is most definitely one of the best documentaries about the B-17 that I've seen.
Great job putting this together...

My grandfather was a tail gunner on a B-17 during the
war. He must've seen some
really terrible things because
he never talked about it much-- unless he was drinking, and then the stories
flowed. We'd watch the show 12 O'Clock together and as the show progressed,
he'd tell what the producers
and actors did right or wrong. I'd listen intently as
he told of how he and his
buddies fended off attack
after attack by ME 109s,
Focke Wolf 190s, and ME 262s. He flew in the 306th
Bomb group out of east Anglia
though I can't recall the name of the airfield. He flew
with General Ira Eiker, who
commanded the air base just like Frank Savage did
on the TV show. As a small
boy, I was enthralled by the
stories he told. But as a man, I came to understand
the sacrifices he and others
like him made to keep us free. He retired from the
Air Force in 1965 after 26
years of flying. His last
assignment was that of a
tail gunner in a B-52 jet
bomber for SAC out of
Omaha Nebraska and served
under Curtis LeMay and Jimmy Stuart. RIP grandpa
and thank you for your service.

Many landed in some real states on returning from Germany. Could take a lot of damage and still fly, somehow.

As a kid, the B17 was my favorite! I had a toy B17 that I played with so much I rubbed all the lead based paint right off it.

The B17 was the Pin up an Curves of Betty Grable and the Poster child of War drives ( the G is my favourite ) , but more should be said for the B24 more built an bigger Payload ..but Respect for the Men who Served an Died in these Aircraft that you can't Overlook or ever be Forgotten.

Thanks one for the best B17 videos I've watched excellent... Everyone here in the UK owes these B17 airmen a debt of gratitude those guys where the bravest of the brave operating over Europe in daylight.... Iam so glad my favourite heavy the B24 got a mention though what a versatile aircraft the 24 was.... The unsung hero in my opinion.... Just like the British hurricane is the unsung hero of the battle of Britain overshadowed by the excellent spitfire... Thanks again great vidio much appreciated from UK 🇬🇧👍

Esse avião ✈️ era fantástico B 17 não sei se hoje está em atividade ou em uzo ainda 🇧🇷👍✈️

Capable of carrying 2,000 missiles at over 200 mph? Did they have some missiles I don't know about in the 30s?

Yeah I know the b-24 was the most produced ( and there's a reason for that in my opinion ) but the b-17 has better lines in it's design . Just my thought or opinion . Ps it's .50 cal not 50 mm.