16" x 20".  Full-color print of EAA Aviation Foundation's B-17 Bomber. The Boeing B-17 Bomber is one of the most famous airplanes ever built.  It served in every World War II combat zone, but it is best known for daylight strategic bombing of German industrial targets. 
     In the early 1930s, the U.S. Army Air Corps began focusing on daylight precision bombing of strategic land targets deep behind enemy lines.  By 1939, only thirteen B-17s were in inventory. Concerned by German and Japanese aggression against other countries, President Roosevelt directed the air Air Corps to increase its bomber strength.  When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, there were 200 B-17s in service.  These first models lacked defensive armament and armor, but once they were added, the plane became known as the  "Flying Fortress."  It carried the burden of the strategic air war in Europe to the enemy and reduced German cities to rubble.  Production ended in May 1945 and totaled 12,726.

 WWII Army