B-17 FLYING FORTRESS - San Jacinto, CA
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saopaulo1
N 33° 47.130 W 116° 57.632
11S E 503653 N 3738373
A plane propeller at Druding Veterans Memorial Park in San Jacinto, CA.
Waymark Code: WMWN3Z
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2017
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B-17
FLYING
FORTRESS
DEDICATED THIS DAY MAY 19, 2007
THE CITY OF SAN JACINTO DEDICATES THIS B-17 PROPELLER
IN HONOR OF U.S. AIR FORCE PERSONNEL WHO
HAVE PROUDLY SERVED OUR COUNTRY
THE B-17 "FLYING FORTRESS" WAS THE FIRST PRODUCTION FOUR
ENGINE BOMBER FLOWN BY THE ARMY AIR FORCE, (EARLIER, THE
"ARMY AIR CORPS"), DURING WORLD WAR II. THE B-17 FLEW IN
EVERY THEATER, BUT MOSTLY IN THE EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN
THEATERS. THE "G" MODEL, WAS THE MOST PRODUCED MODEL (8,680),
AND ALTHOUGH BASICALLY THE SAME AS THE EARLIER "F" MODEL,
IT HAD A CHIN TURRET WITH TWO FIFTY CALIBER MACHINE GUNS
AND TWO CHEEK GUN POSITIONS, EACH MOUNTING SINGLE FIFTY
CALIBER MACHINE GUNS. IN ALL THERE WERE THIRTEEN FIFTY
CALIBER MACHINE GUNS MOUNTED IN THE "G" MODEL B-17.
BOEING B-17G FLYING FORTRESS - HEAVY BOMBER
POWERPLANT: FOUR 1,200 HP WRIGHT R-1820-97
NINE CYLINDER AIR COOLED RADIAL CYCLONE ENGINES
MAXIMUM SPEED: 300 MPH
ARMAMENT: 13 M2 .50 CALIBER BROWNING MACHINE GUNS
PAYLOAD: 6,000 LBS. OF BOMBS
COST: $276,000
CREW SIZE: 10
For what use was your waymark originally intended?: Aircraft
What purpose does it serve today?: Free Standing
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