Battle Scars
The plane was later described as “arguably the world’s only intact and unretired World War II-era B-17E bomber” by the Pacific Aviation Museum in Hawaii. […] [It’s] an exceptional example of an aircraft that was critical in the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. “It is also the only B-17 in the world that has retained its battle scars from World War II.” It was a truly remarkable discovery, not least because it put an end to a 30-year-old mystery.
Battle Scars
Modernizing The U.S. Military
Swamp Ghost, on the other hand, would almost certainly not have existed without FDR. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s drive to modernize the United States military included the commissioning of a new generation of bombers – ones that could transport large payloads and travel to remote bases in places like Hawaii, Panama, and Alaska. And, to begin with, the prototype of the B-17 appeared to be a good fit for this description.
Modernizing The U.S. Military
