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"We have the most beautiful bomber in the world."
This was published by the New York Times on the morning of July 29, 1935, after the previous day the Model 299, progenitor of one of the most famous aircraft of all time, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, had made its first flight over Seattle with Boeing's chief test pilot, Leslie R. Tower, at the controls.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine aircraft of the heavy bomber class.
It was used mainly by the Army Air Forces in strategic bombing campaigns against German industrial, civilian and military targets. The 8th Air Force based in England and the 15th Air Force based in Italy joined RAF Bomber Command in Operation Pointblank, to secure air superiority over cities, factories and battlefields in Western Europe.
This operation was a preparation for the Normandy landings.