Editing Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (section)

=== Soviet-interned B-17s ===
The U.S. did not offer B-17s to the Soviet Union as part of its [[Lend-Lease|war materiel assistance program]], but at least 73 aircraft were acquired by the [[Soviet Air Force]]. These aircraft had landed with mechanical trouble during the [[Operation Frantic|shuttle bombing raids]] over Germany or had been damaged by a ''Luftwaffe'' raid in [[Poltava]]. The Soviets restored 23 to flying condition and concentrated them in the 890th Bomber Regiment of the [[45th Bomber Aviation Division]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Holm |first=Michael |title=890th Bryanskiy Bomber Aviation Regiment|url=https://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/bap/890bap.htm}}</ref> but they never saw combat. In 1946 (or 1947, according to Holm), the regiment was assigned to the [[Kazan]] factory (moving from [[Baranovichi]]) to help the Soviet effort to reproduce the more advanced [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress|Boeing B-29]] as the [[Tupolev Tu-4]].<ref name="Gordon p. 479">Gordon 2008, p. 479.</ref>