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01-08-2007, 06:00 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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Country:  | The B-17 dropped more than just bombs for the US.
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01-08-2007, 07:01 PM
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#2 | | Solopsist Extraordinaire
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Country: | Great pics.
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01-08-2007, 07:07 PM
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Country: | Very interesting. I didn't know that the USCG had B-17s. | |
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01-08-2007, 07:37 PM
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| B29's also did this.
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01-08-2007, 07:55 PM
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#5 | | Solopsist Extraordinaire
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Country: | I believe that the CIA also used B-17s extensively. For intelligence gathering and clandestine operations.
I wish that I had kept my book, "Blind Man's Bluff". I believe there might have been a couple of B-17 operations documented therein.
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01-09-2007, 06:20 AM
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#6 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Most of the heavies also dropped food and supplies over the European continent at the end of the war too.
Good reading about Operations Manna and Operation Chowhound here: Welcome on the website about operation Manna / Chowhound
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01-09-2007, 06:53 AM
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Country: | Was it in the John Wayne movie "The High and the Mighty", that there
is lovely footage of a coast guard B-17 dropping a life boat? | |
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01-09-2007, 08:46 AM
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Country: | The B-17 dropped all kinds of stuff, they even tried a cargo version but decided to use the B-24(C-87)(C-109)
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01-09-2007, 11:59 AM
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Country:  | not to be out done of course  wouldn't mind seeing some shots of the B-29 doing it though!
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03-18-2007, 09:43 PM
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Country:  | Is that third image a boat being dropped from a B-17? Interesting I always thought of it as just a bomber. Never realised it was that adaptable. | |
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03-18-2007, 10:08 PM
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Country: | The USCG used them for many years after WW2 - PB-1G 
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