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B17 flying Fortress US Bomber aircraft in aviation art prints. B17 flying Fortress in aviation art prints by Anthony Saunders, Robert Taylor. Prints available from Cranston Fine Arts, the aviation art print company.

Art prints and paintings of the Memphis Belle

In the mid-1930s engineers at Boeing suggested the possibility of designing a modern long-range monoplane bomber to the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1934 the USAAC issued Circular 35-26 that outlined specifications for a new bomber that was to have a minimum payload of 2000 pounds, a cruising speed in excess of 200-MPH, and a range of at least 2000 miles. Boeing produced a prototype at its own expense, the model 299, which first flew in July of 1935. The 299 was a long-range bomber based largely on the Model 247 airliner. The Model 299 had several advanced features including an all-metal wing, an enclosed cockpit, retractable landing gear, a fully enclosed bomb bay with electrically operated doors, and cowled engines. With gun blisters glistening everywhere, a newsman covering the unveiling coined the term Flying Fortress to describe the new aircraft. After a few initial test flights the 299 flew off to Wright Field setting a speed record with an average speed of 232-mph. At Wright Field the 299 bettered its competition in almost all respects. However, an unfortunate crash of the prototype in October of 1935 resulted in the Army awarding its primary production contract to Douglas Aircraft for its DB-1 (B-18.) The Army did order 13 test models of the 299 in January 1936, and designated the new plane the Y1B-17. Early work on the B-17 was plagued by many difficulties, including the crash of the first Y1B-17 on its third flight, and nearly bankrupted the Company. Minor quantities of the B-17B, B-17C, and B-17D variants were built, and about 100 of these aircraft were in service at the time Pearl Harbor was attacked. In fact a number of unarmed B-17s flew into the War at the time of the Japanese attack. The German Blitzkrieg in Europe resulted in accelerated aircraft production in America. The B-17E was the first truly heavily armed variant and made its initial flight in September of 1941. B-17Es cost $298,000 each and more than 500 were delivered. The B-17F and B-17G were the truly mass-produced wartime versions of the Flying Fortress. More than 3,400 B-17Fs and more than 8,600 B-17Gs would be produced. The American daylight strategic bombing campaign against Germany was a major factor in the Allies winning the War in Europe. This campaign was largely flown by B-17 Flying Fortresses (12,677 built) and B-24 Liberators (18,188 built.) The B-17 bases were closer to London than those of the B-24, so B-17s received a disproportionate share of wartime publicity. The first mission in Europe with the B-17 was an Eighth Air Force flight of 12 B-17Es on August 12, 1942. Thousands more missions, with as many as 1000 aircraft on a single mission would follow over the next 2 ½ years, virtually decimating all German war making facilities and plants. The B-17 could take a lot of damage and keep on flying, and it was loved by the crews for bringing them home despite extensive battle damage. Following WW II, B-17s would see some action in Korea, and in the 1948 Israel War. There are only 14 flyable B-17s in operation today and a total of 43 complete airframes.

Coming Home by Tim Fisher. 1 edition with signatures!	The B-17 Flying Fortress 'Memphis Belle' returns from one of her 25 mission over France and Germany. Memphis Belle, a B-17F-10-BO, USAAF Serial No.41-24485, was supplied to the USAAF on July 15th 1942, and delivered to the 91st Bomb Group i......	3 print editions available from £50.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £1900.00
Combat over the Reich by Robert Taylor. 2 editions with signatures!	Approaching their target at the oil refinery at Zwickau, 60 mikes southwest of Dresden, the 452nd Bomb Groups B-17 Flying Fortresses were bounced by 28 ME-262 jets from JG-7. Screaming in from the six oclock position, the jet pilots singled out the ......	All 2 ex-display prints sold out.
The Memphis Belle by Philip West.	Over three years of continuous air combat the 91st Bombardment Group The Ragged Irregulars were based at Bassingbourn in England. They flew 340 missions with honor and bravery, over occupied Europe and bore such B-17 legends as Memphis Belle, Shoo S......	3 print editions available from £90.00 1 ex-display print available from £60.00
An Interesting Dog Fight by Stan Stokes. 2 editions with signatures!	October 23, 1942 was a typical day for American troops at Esprito Santo, but for the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress it would become a most memorable day. Early that morning the Japanese began shelling the field. Lt. Ed Loberg, a former farm boy from......	3 print editions available from £30.00
Safe Pastures by Mark Postlethwaite.	B-17G 42-37755 NV-A 325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group from Poddington crash landing in Switzerland on 25th February 1944 after sustaining damage over enemy territory after a raid on Augsburg and Stuttgart. ......	1 print edition available from £70.00

Last One Home by Ivan Berryman. 7 editions with signatures!	A pair of P51D Mustangs of the 361st Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, escort a damaged B17G Flying Fortress of the 381st Bomb Group back to its home base of Ridgewell, England, during the Autumn of 1944. ......	9 print editions available from £40.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00
Scheherazade by Tim Fisher.	This aircraft is credited with flying 126 missions without an abort for the 447th Bomb Group and was one of only three original aircraft to survive the war and return to the US. To the left can be seen the famous A Bit O Lace. All these aircraft w......	2 print editions available from £50.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £1500.00
A Welcome at the Inn by Nicolas Trudgian. 3 editions with signatures!	The USAAF bomber bases of WWII were situated in the heart of rural England. Surrounded by countryside and pretty villages, it took the crews little time to become regulars at the nearest village inn, where traditionally there was Open House to Ameri......	3 print editions available from £200.00
Her Majesty the Queen by Brian Bateman. 1 edition with signatures!	April 26, 1943. The Yankee Queen, a sturdy and rugged B-17F, lumbered its way home on a steamy, hot and arid late afternoon. She was coming in to land, almost miraculously, as if being held up by Gods own hand. The Yankee Queen had been in on the ......	1 print edition available from £135.00
Thunderheads Over Ridgewell by Robert Taylor. 3 editions with signatures!	In the early days of the USAAF daylight bombing campaign, before the arrival of long-range fighter escorts, rarely was a mission flown without Luftwaffe interception and the ever-present barrage of anti-aircraft fire. The Eighth Air Force crews liter......	3 print editions available from £200.00

Eagle Attack by Nicolas Trudgian 2 editions with signatures!	Typical of great air battles fought in the skies above occupied Europe were the determined interceptions by Luftwaffe fighters, particularly upon the massed daylight raids mounted by the American Eighth Air Force. Major Herman Graf, Gruppenkommandeu......	3 print editions available from £45.00
Skipper Comes Home by Robert Taylor 3 editions with signatures!	From the summer of 1942 until the end of hostilities, the USAAFs Eighth Air Force took the battle to enemy occupied Europe every single day that weather permitted. The largest air unit ever to go to war, the Eighth played a vital role in the ultima......	3 print editions available from £200.00
Heaven Can Wait by Nicolas Trudgian. 3 editions with signatures!	B-17 Fortresses of the Bloody Hundredth- the Eighth Air Forces 100th Bomb Group - return to Thorpe Abbotts following a raid on enemy oil refineries, September 11, 1944. Nicolas Trudgians moving tribute to the Bloody Hundredth shows the imaginatively......	2 print editions available from £110.00 1 ex-display print available from £110.00
Cat Among the Pigeons (FW190) by Ivan Berryman. 3 editions with signatures!	It was in 1941 that the remarkable Focke-Wulfe FW190 first appeared in the skies of Europe, quickly establishing itself as a most formidable adversary. It proved to be the supreme weapon against all allied bomber forces. Here FW190A-8 of 1 Gruppe, J......	4 print editions available from £55.00 1 canvas print edition available from £370.00 1 ex-display print available from £45.00
B17G Flying Fortress Little Miss Mischief by Barry Price.	Incredibly, on 15th October 1944, Lt Paul McDowell managed to bring <i>Little Miss Mischief</i> back to Bassingbourn from Cologne despite the bomber having suffered a direct flak hit. She was one of the B-17 machines which carried out the second of ......	1 print edition available from £13.00

Bringing the Peacemaker Home by Robert Taylor. 2 editions with signatures!	Badly marked by Focke-Wulf 190's the B-17 The Peacemaker of the 91st Bomb Group limps towards the sanctuary of the English coast escorted by P-51B Mustangs of the 361st Fighter Group. To keep her flying the crew are jettisoning everything that t......	2 print editions available from £325.00
Back to English Soil by Keith Woodcock. 1 edition with signatures!	A Boeing B17G of the 91st BG USA 8th Airforce returns to English soil on three engines after a fraught daylight mission over Germany. ......	1 print edition available from £90.00
US Bombadier by Chris Collingwood.	A Bombadier from a B17 Flying Fortress. A tribute to all Bombadier from all Bomber Aircraft. ......	2 print editions available from £60.00
Thundering Home by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) 1 edition with signatures!	When the U.S. Air Forces arrived in Europe in 1942 it was the beginning of a three year aerial campaign, the scale of which had never been seen before, nor since. The 8th, 9th, 12th and 15th Air Forces constituted the mightiest aerial armada in hist......	1 print edition available from £280.00
Birth of a Legend by Stan Stokes. 4 editions with signatures!	Colin P. Kelly, Americas first hero of WW II, was born in Florida in 1915. He was accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and following graduation Kelly married the former Marian Wick. Kelly received his primary flight instruction at Ra......	5 print editions available from £35.00 2 canvas print editions available from £294.00

Top Cover by Stan Stokes. 2 editions with signatures!	The painting depicts a P-51D Mustang (flown by William Bailey of the 353rd Fighter Group) flying escort for B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Armys Eighth Air Force. The scene is over the French countryside during late 1944, and several more hours ......	3 print editions available from £35.00
Favorite Lady by John Young.	A damaged Boeing B-17G of the 510th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group operating out of Polebrook, Northants, escorted here by North American P-51Ds of the 357th Fighter Group from Leiston in Suffolk. ......	1 print edition available from £55.00 1 ex-display print available from £30.00
Guardian Angel by Anthony Saunders. 2 editions with signatures!	Depicting Mustang aircraft escorting Flying Fortresses on a bombing raid over Germany.......	4 print editions available from £25.00 1 canvas print edition available from £370.00 Original available : £2750.00 1 ex-display print available from £22.00
Silent Fortress by Randall Scott.	There are few scenes quite so evocative as the vision of a once mighty warbird resting silently in its watery grave, a tranquil underwater world so alien to the world that it was created to fly and fight in. Far removed from the hostile skies of Eur......	3 print editions available from £85.00
They Fought With What They Had by John D Shaw. 2 editions with signatures!	Philippine Islands, late November 1941. As the United States prepared for inevitable conflict, members of the US Army Air Corps found themselves stationed in locations throughout this area, in terrifyingly close proximity to a certain enemy far more......	3 print editions available from £95.00

The Safe Return by Robin Smith.	A B17 arriving at its home base somewhere in Norfolk, as its attending P-51 Mustangs continue a short way to there respective base. The Boeing B17 Flying Fortress was the prime instrument in the evaluation of the American strategic bombing, and enjoy......	1 print edition available from £95.00
Return to Rattlesden by Nicolas Trudgian. 3 editions with signatures!	With their crews, the 447th Bomb Group B-17 Fortresses arrived at Rattlesden in late 1943, the East Anglian base from which the group flew all its missions until the end of the war. Entering combat on December 24, the 447th targeted submarine pens, ......	3 print editions available from £110.00
Legend of Colin Kelly by Robert Taylor. 2 editions with signatures!	December 10th 1941, Just three days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, captain Colin Kellys 19th BG B-17C is heavily outnumbered by Zeros as it returns to Clark Field after completing a successful bombing attack. With his aircraft on fire. K......	2 print editions available from £200.00
Nine O Nine by Philip West.	Nine O Nine awaits her next mission over occupied Europe. Part of the 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Squadron, this B-17 went on to complete a record mission tally of 140 without an abort or loss of a single crew member. She started operations in February 1......	2 print editions available from £110.00 1 ex-display print available from £67.50
Final Encounter by Philip West.	Returning from a raid over Lorient, France on the 17th May 1943 the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle came under close attack from Fw190s and Me109s. Fortunately no aircraft were lost and very little damage sustained to the 91st Bomb Group a......	All 2 print editions sold out.

Portrait of a Queen by Stan Stokes.	The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is the subject of Stans painting. B-17s were produced in large numbers and along with the B-24 Liberator carried out the brunt of the Eighth Air Forces long range strategic daylight bombing campaign. These missions we......	1 print edition available from £94.00
B-17 Memphis Belle by Keith Woodcock.	KW10. B-17 Memphis Belle by Keith Woodcock. ......	1 print edition available from £18.00
Red Tail Escort by Richard Taylor. 4 editions with signatures!	With the words of his Group CO ringing in his ears, a pilot of the 332nd Fighter Group returns to protect a crippled American B17 bomber after downing two Me109s in quick succession. Agonisingly, two more enemy fighters were left to escape but the p......	4 print editions available from £95.00
A Welcome Return by Anthony Saunders. 3 editions with signatures!	The relieved but weary crew members of Ol Gappy of the 379th Bomb Group, as they nurse their battle scarred B-17G back to their base at Kimbolton. Close behind them, the remainder of the group, relieved to see familiar territory, makes its final app......	3 print editions available from £85.00
Helping Hand by Robert Taylor. 1 edition with signatures!	<b>SOLD OUT. ......	All 1 print edition sold out.

Those Golden Moments by Philip West.	As the sun slowly begins to rise this wintry morning over Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk, ground crew prepare B-17G The All American Girl in an almost surreal setting, for her 99th dangerous mission over enemy territory. On 10th January 1945, 19-year-old pi......	2 print editions available from £125.00 1 ex-display print available from £70.00
Return from Schweinfurt by Robert Taylor. 1 edition with signatures!	B-17 Fortresses of the American 8th Air Forces 1st Wing, fighting their way back from Schweinfurt on 17th August 1945. ......	All 1 ex-display print sold out.
First Strike on Berlin by Nicolas Trudgian. 3 editions with signatures!	The first successful daylight raid on Berlin. Nicolas Trudgians painting relives the fearsome aerial combat on March 6, 1944, as B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 100th B.G. are attacked. Screaming in head-on, Fw190s of II./JG I charge into the bomber s......	4 print editions available from £110.00
Berlin Bound by Anthony Saunders.	In 1944 Berlin was probably the most defended city in the world. The Luftwaffe had kept what reserves it had for planes to defend Berlin. On March 6th, 1944, The USAAF were involved in the massive air raid on Berlin, 69 B17s were lost – but the Luf......	2 print editions available from £25.00 1 canvas print edition available from £370.00 1 ex-display print available from £22.00
Defenders of the Reich by Graeme Lothian. 5 editions with signatures!	Major Rudolf Rudi Sinner of STAB.III/JG7 attacking B-17s of 91st Bomb Group during March 1945. Attacking in a Kette of three aircraft from behind and below targeting the tailenders and rising over the B-17s. Avoiding any debris and evading the inco......	7 print editions available from £80.00 2 canvas print editions available from £370.00 Original available : £1900.00

Fortress Under Siege by Stan Stokes.	In the mid-1930s engineers at Boeing suggested the possibility of designing a modern long-range monoplane bomber to the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1934 the USAAC issued Circular 35-26 that outlined specifications for a new bomber that was to have a min......	2 print editions available from £35.00 3 canvas print editions available from £294.00
Deadly Pass by David Pentland. 4 editions with signatures!	Magdeburg, Germany, 10th April 1945. Attacking from behind and above, ObLt.Walter Schuck, Staffelkapitain of 3./JG7, ripped through the massed boxes of 8th Airforce B17s, downing four in a single high speed pass. ......	3 print editions available from £75.00 Original available : £410.00
Flying Into a War by Stan Stokes. 2 editions with signatures!	John Davy Crockett was trained as a navigator by Pan Am in mid-1941 because the USAAF did not have its navigator school in operation. Davy was assigned to the 36th Bomb Squadron of the 19th Bomb Group flying the new B-17C Flying Fortress. Davy found......	4 print editions available from £35.00 3 canvas print editions available from £294.00
Ruby's Fortress by Stan Stokes. 2 editions with signatures!	The B-17 Flying Fortress, was one of the most acclaimed aircraft of WW II. It is also one of those uniquely popular warbirds which has attracted more than its fair share of romance and nostalgia over the years. Nearly 13,000 of these aircraft were p......	4 print editions available from £35.00 3 canvas print editions available from £294.00
Winter's Welcome by Robert Taylor. (GS)	For those on the ground there were few sights more stirring than a B-17 Fortress on its final approach from a combat mission, and Robert Taylor's outstanding painting <i>Winter's Welcome</i> is no exception. This now legendary image conjure......	1 canvas print edition available from £495.00

A Green Hill Far Away by Robert Tomlin. 1 edition with signatures!	On the morning of October 14th 1943 along with 15 others from the 305th Bomb Group, Lazy Baby set off from Chelveston in England on Mission 115, the second Schweinfurt raid, later to become known as Black Thursday. By the time they reached Aachen on ......	1 print edition available from £85.00
Rocket Attack by Nicolas Trudgian. 4 editions with signatures!	It required more than a little nerve to fly a fighter into the barrage of fire sprayed out by the gunners of a box of B17 bombers; it took even greater courage to do so in the rocket propelled Me163 Komet. With rocket science still in its infancy, t......	3 print editions available from £65.00
Nine-o-Nine by Stan Stokes.	One of only fourteen B-17s that still fly, the Collings Foundation is the proud owner and operator of B-17G serial no. 44-83575. This aircraft was built on April 7, 1945 in Long Beach, CA by Douglas Aircraft under license from Boeing. She served as ......	2 print editions available from £35.00 3 canvas print editions available from £294.00
B-17 Flying Fortress by Nicolas Trudgian. 4 editions with signatures!	Part of a small print series of six American WW2 aircraft, signed by some of the great American pilots, some no longer with us. Cranston Fine Arts have purchased the last remaining stocks of this aviation series. ......	4 print editions available from £55.00
Out of Fuel and Safely Home by Robert Taylor. 2 editions with signatures!	Damaged by flak and enemy fighters, and almost out of fuel, after a gruelling eight hour mission the pilot of this B-17 Fortress makes a forced landing in the safety of an English cornfield. A pair of P-51 Mustangs have escorted the damaged aircraft......	2 print editions available from £200.00

Clash of Eagles by Anthony Saunders. 3 editions with signatures!	P-51 Mustangs of the 20th Fighter Group, flying out of Kings Cliffe to engage Me109s from JG77 in a furiously contested dogfight. Below them a formation of B-17s from the 379th Bomb Group ﬂy through the chaos, doggedly maintaining their cours......	3 print editions available from £85.00
Teamwork by Nicolas Trudgian. 2 editions with signatures!	P-51 Mustangs of the 20th Fighter Group make a low pass over B-17s of the 401st Bomb Group at Deenethorpe, as they return to their base at Kingscliffe in late 1944. ......	2 print editions available from £70.00
Schweinfurt - The Second Mission by Robert Taylor. 4 editions with signatures!	Briefing at 0500 hours on the morning of 14 October 1943 brought the crews of the 92nd Bomb Group news they did not want to hear: Its Schweinfurt again! The same message was being repeated in USAAF bomb group briefing rooms all over eastern England ......	4 print editions available from £200.00
The Veteran by Simon Smith. 2 editions with signatures!	Our Gal Sal, a veteran of over a hundred ops, returning to base in the summer of 1944. The peace of the English country side is broken by the thunder of the mighty four engined bombers and keen observers will spot the rabbit scampering along the co......	2 print editions available from £70.00
Coming Home by Robert Taylor. 1 edition with signatures!	<b>SOLD OUT. ......	All 1 print edition sold out.

Fortress under Attack by Robert Taylor.

1 edition with signatures!

22nd Bomb group B17s under attack by Mitsubishi Zero fighters over Rebaul November 1942. ......

All 1 print edition sold out.

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