The B-17 Boeing Flying Fortress was notorious amongst the German Luftwaffe during the second world war, it's ability to withstand staggering levels...

[Photo] German Me 410 aircraft attacking a B-17G bomber of US 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group over Brüx, Czechoslovakia (now Most, Czech Republic) May 12 1944; photo taken from the B-17G aircraft “Lady Godiva”

P&B, 2792. PDF Pattern The pattern has been retyped exactly as it was. Unfortunately I have had to make a new cover as the original is too damaged to work with. The pattern suggests 10oz 4ply Wool (old 4ply) with 9 & 11 needles. I have knitted it up in acrylic DK 4x100g balls using same needles and it has knitted to a 40.5" chest. I have also knitted it on 8 & 10 needles again acrylic DK 4x100g balls and it has knitted to 43"chest. Land Army Pull-Over and Stockings sizes; Pull-Over actual measurements:- Length from top of shoulder, 22". Width all round at underarm, 36". length of sleeve from under arm 17". *This is a Digital copy of the original Vintage Pattern (it is not the original pattern). *You will need to be able to open a PDF on your Desk Top, Laptop, Ipad, Tablet or other device. Free software can be downloaded, one of the most popular suppliers for this is Adobe. *As we are based in the UK most of our patterns are written in UK terminology. *We spend hours cleaning up the patterns that we sell and resizing them so that they fit nicely on A4 paper making them easier to read than the original smaller versions. *If you are interested in Vintage TOY patterns we would like to invite you to look at https://www.etsy.com/shop/DaleStratford *If you have any questions before or issues after purchase please contact us by messaging us here on Etsy.

The First Expedition, Operation “Longcloth” Welded into a seven column fighting force totaling over 3,000 men with mules, oxen and elephants to carry heavy supplies, the Chindits (aka, the 77th Bri…

Aboard a 15th Army Air Force, 99th BG (Bombardment Group) B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Foggia, Italy (Tortorella), in the WWII MTO (Mediterranean Theatre of Operation). The 'offset' windows on the bomber helped prevent the two gunners operating the .50-caliber machine guns from running into each other during the 'frenzy' of trying to shoot down attacking German fighters, such as the BF-109, and even jets. Today, the 99th is no longer a BG (Bomb Group), and are based at Nellis AFB (Air Force Base), Nevada. Photo from their website. During the Wings of Freedom Tour in May, 2011, an 89-year old 99th BG B-17 ball turret ('belly') gunner, Bill Cornett, was treated to a complimentary flight from Santa Ana to Hawthorne, CA Airports aboard the B-17g Flying Fortress bomber "Nine-O-Nine".... his fifty-second 'mission' (his own words)! He is very sharp and spry at 89. I've helped him put his record of his bombing missions in chronological order, and he now has a Flickr photostream at B-17Gunner, showing his latest flight, along with a pictorial history of his wartime missions in Foggia, Italy.

Flight jacket history with a compilation of the some of the most important flight jackets that have been, together with their basic descriptions and some illustrations in a timeline. Featuring the A2 jacket history, G1 jacket history and more.

Photographed at the Spitfire 60th Anniversary Airshow, Duxford, 1996 Scanned print. Photo ref; 1996/Spitfire 60th-Duxford/095

Ferdinand Foch was a French military leader who served as supreme commander of the Allied armies during the final months of World War I.

Lincolnshire in England has received a visit from aviation advisers associated with a new World War II mini-series from Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks -

"I'll Get By" (QW-Z / red) B-17G-55-BO Flying Fortress s/n 42-102700 412th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Shot down on August 2,1944 tactical bombing mission to the Caen, France area, all but three crewmembers were killed. Plane was hit in the wing by flak, knocking off the wing tip. The plane veered to left and caught fire, then exploded. They were flying as deputy lead crew for this mission. MACR 7701 Crew on last mission: Capt. Elmer E. Bockman - Command Pilot (O-2044718) Fort Sumner, New Mexico ....................KIA - buried in Normandy American Cemetery / Plot B, Row 22, Grave 3 Capt. Robert O. Baber - Pilot (O-375909) Dodge City, Kansas ....................KIA - buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery in Salina, Kansas 1st Lt. Jasper W. Kaylor, Jr. - Co-Pilot (O-817042) Atlanta, Georgia ....................KIA 1st Lt. Raymond D. Dallas - Navigator (O-696069) Paducah, Kentucky ....................KIA - buried in Normandy American Cemetery / Plot I, Row 25, Grave 4 1st Lt. Frank T. Sohn - Bombardier (O-754983) Kingston, New York ....................KIA T/Sgt. Oscar C. Walrod - Engineer/Top Turret Gunner (19004514) Axtell, Kansas ....................KIA - buried in Correctionville Cemetery, Iowa T/Sgt. Robert V. Hill - Radio Operator (35644893) Franklin Furnace, Ohio ....................KIA - buried in Normandy American Cemetery / Plot B, Row 23, Grave 3 S/Sgt. Donald W. Phillips - Ball Turret Gunner (15377309) Alliance, Ohio ....................POW S/Sgt. Barney Lipkin - Waist Gunner (32695273) Brooklyn, New York ....................POW S/Sgt. Walter J. Collyer,Jr. - Tail Gunner (32804322) Brooklyn, New York ....................POW - Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow