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Anyone interested in <I>Black Jack</I> might like to know that <I>Black Jack's Last Mission</I>, the documentary we did about the old plane, will be available soon on DVD. It runs about 52 minutes and includes underwater footage of the old B-17 inside and out. There's also a recent interview with th...

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This gives me the opportunity to post a couple of old favourites . . . http://users.tpg.com.au/stevepb/SSSB1.jpg and only ten years later . . . http://users.tpg.com.au/stevepb/SSSB2.jpg The first photo was taken by Mike Leister at Dover AFB during the early stages of the restoration. The second shot...

I’m trying to wrap up my research on the veteran B-17F Flying Fortresses that served in the Southwest Pacific and were last heard of in the Philippines at the end of World War II. There were five that I know of: 41-24353 Cap'n & The Kids Delivered June 11, 1942, flown to Australia by Lt James T. Mur...

This is another “cold case”. For years I’ve been trying to identify a B-17F that was named Spirit of Cleveland . Fellow B-17 researcher George Wyatt found this one and the story goes something like this: At 10:30 in the morning of Saturday, July 4, 1942, a B-17F with the name Spirit of Cleveland pai...