no doubt taken by the one after 909..;)

Is that a p-51d in the background?

I think it was an AT-6 trainer.

Yeah, it's a Texan. Nice shot!

I like this picture. The fortress is one of my favored aircrafts. I have been twice inside a B-17. As I was young I lived for a year in Portland/Oregon and visited the famous Bomber Drive-In restaurant of Art Lacey. ( http://www.thebomber.com/restaurant.asp ) Another B-17G ( 238160 J) from the 385th Bomb Group (H) / 550th Bomb Squadron (H) crashed on March 16 1944 into a lake in Switzerland. After it was pulled out of the water in 1952, I was lucky to sit on the pilot seat and also to try out the side fuselage machine guns. Many years later I spoted "my" B-17 the "Lonesome Polecat" high up in the Swiss mountains - in St.Moritz. Covered with snow the fairly restored bomber stud aside of some rich people's chalets. The tourist manager of St.Moritz desided that a US-bomber does not fit into this mondaine wintersport landscape. The fuselage, the wings and all the other stuff where destroid and the four engines where sold to someone in Holland. I still have all the picture of that B-17 Bomber odisee around Switzerland. I even got a copy of the official crash report by the War Departement Headquarters Army Air Forces in Washington. That is why I know all the names of the aircrew: Pilot: Robert W. Meyer - Co-Pilot: Boyd J. Henshaw - Navigator: Robert L. Williams - Bombardier-Toggler: Carl J. Larsen - Top Tur Gunr: John (HMT) Miller jr. - Rad Opr Gnr: John E. Wels - Ball Tur Gnr: Charles W. Page - Tail Gnr: Jarrell F. Legg - Right Waist Gnr: Louis B. Liening - Left Waist Gnr: Elbert E. Mitchell Quote from the report: This aircraft substained damage by fighter attacks, the No.4 was smoking and was last sighted at 1135 hours, 483ON-0020E, at which time the aircraft turned south towards Switzerland.