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English: B-17 Flying Fortress, Serial number 238091
Date circa 1943
date QS:P,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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This image is used in the top of the second plate following page 220 of "The Army Air Forces In World War II, Volume Six, Men and Planes" originally prepared by the USAF Historical Division, reprint by the University of Chicago Press with the note that, "With the exception of editing, the work is the product of the United States government."
PDF of the volume is here:
http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-101105-019.pdf
The Air Force Historical Research Agency has a media gallery of images used in this volume, for which the image in question appears on this page:
http://www.afhra.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=5584&page=14
Caption: "Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" levels off for a run over target. Photo shows the chin turret with .50 caliber machine guns featured in later models. The B-17 weighed about 60,000 lbs., carried a bomb load of 6000 lbs., at a speed of approximately 300 miles per hour."
Full sized image here:
http://www.afhra.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/080128-f-3927s-024.jpg
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Other versions http://acepilots.com/archives/Photos/heavy-bombers.html

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