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The B-17 Flying Fortress
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The B-17 Flying Fortress Paperback - 2001

by Robert Jackson


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In the spring of 1928 Clairmont J. Egtvedt, a vice-president of the Boeing Aircraft Company, boarded the carrier USS Langley, anchored in San Diego Bay, to confer with Rear-Admiral Joseph M. Reeves about the new Boeing F3B and F4B series of shipboard fighters, which were about to replace the earlier F2B in service with the US Navy.

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  • Title The B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Author Robert Jackson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Spellmount Publishers Ltd, Staplehurst, Kent, United Kingdom
  • Date 2001
  • ISBN 9781862271067 / 1862271062
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.746
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