U.S. Air Force color photograph of the B-17 Flying Fortress “Idiots’ Delight” of Eighth Air Force in England. The original caption states the M/Sgt is Penrose A. Bingham of Reading, Pennsylvania. The B-17 “Idiots’ Delight” served with the 332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group and later with the 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group. Victor Sierra


“Idiots’ Delight” 

North American B-25s Mitchell on a bridge busting mission over Italy. Photograph of U.S. Twelfth Air Force in Italy from Medium Bomber Operations, 1 January – 28 August 1944, Headquarters Twelfth Air Force, February 1945.

Bridge busting mission 

Mission briefing for the crews of 99th Bombardment Group, 5th Bomb Wing, 15th Air Force, equipped with Boeing B-17s, at Tortorella Airfield, near Salerno, Southern Italy, 1944. Victor Sierra