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| Title | Boeing bomber B-17 in flight with Mount Rainier in the background, 1941 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1941 |
| Caption | Under military contract, the bomber went from design to flight test in just 12 months. Making its first flight on July 28, 1935, it was Boeing's first military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit and was armed with bombs and five.30-caliber machine guns. Boeing plants built 6, 981 of more than 12, 000 B-17's delivered during World War II. The Fortresses were legendary for bringing their crews home safely even when damaged. |
| Notes | B-17 Bomber also known as Boeing B-17 and Flying Fortress [note from the Library of Congress Authority File].
Handwritten on sleeve: AIRPLANES, Boeing, B-17, Note: All portions of plane from which pictures were taken are censored.
Caption information source: P-I research files, www.boeing.com
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 20, 1941. |
| Subjects | B-17 Bomber; Bombers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Mountains--Washington (State) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)
Rainier, Mount (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.159.3 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
