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It features the vast armadas of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress during its missions over ... 50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns placed in nine positions located throughout the airframe, each ...

Thus it was that on October 2nd a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed after technical troubles. Incidentally, this is the very same airplane which we covered only a number of days ago.