The most effective, devastating and romanticized aircraft of WWII was the B-17. Countless books and movies dramatize the Flying Fortress and the 10-men crews that flew them. Here is a chance to take a rare flight in the plane that ruled the skies.

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Leonard is the author of "The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy."