First operational B-17 mission with the RAF (B-17C)

Video Title :	First operational B-17 mission with the RAF (B-17C)
Description :	Location of events unknown, an RAF base somewhere in England. Various shots of RAF (Royal Air Force) ground crew artwork cleaning and preparing a American Boeing Flying Fortress for flight. Various shots of the aircrew putting on their kit and climbing into a lorry which is to take them to their aircraft. Various C/Us of the crew standing beside the bomber. They are smoking, drinking tea and looking at maps. We also see them putting on their "special oxygen breathing apparatus".
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Keywords, Tags :	B-17 flying fortress boeing bomber aviation history
Video Length :	1 : 33

Comments :

yes it must be Polebrook, in these early high altitude raids, which were top secret, RAF aircrew were you used as guinea pigs, using the still embryo B17, trained, assisted and joined in flight by USAAF "observers" before Americas entry into the war, and to test their theory of daylight precision bombing.

b-17 was one of the major reasons the allais won the war, in my opinion :) best plane ever

I think this could very well be RAF Burtonwood in the video.

SADLY SHOT DOWN 1941.NORWAY.. TEZZ

Its RAF Polebrook, near Peterborough. 90 Sqn's first raid was on 08 July 1941 to Wilhelmshaven. On 08 Sep 1941 three aircraft were lost on a raid to Oslo and the B-17C was deemed unsuitable for such raids. They were then diverted to other duties; mainly Coastal Command.