The B-17 Flying Fortress made its mark on history and became among the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Those bombers were able to strike deep into German-held territory, hitting ...
Her father, John Hyatt Edwards, was the pilot of the lead bomber of that fateful flight of more than 3,000 planes, flying a B-17 on Dec. 24, 1944. It didn’t start out that way. Gen. Frederick ...