Editing Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (section)

== Operators ==
{{Main list|List of B-17 Flying Fortress operators}}
[[File:World operators of the B-17.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Military operators of the B-17]]
[[File:Civil operators of the B-17.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Civil operators of the B-17]]
[[File:Brazilian Boeing B-17 flies over the French destroyer Tartu (D636) during the 1963 Lobster War.jpg|thumb|A Brazilian B-17 in action during the 1963 Lobster War]]
[[File:95.BG - Fortepan 15948.jpg|thumb|A B-17 crew participating in shuttle flights of [[Operation Frantic]] poses with their plane. The nose art on the bomber reads "Polar Star" (referring to the star ([[Polaris]]) in Russian.]]
The B-17, a versatile aircraft, served in dozens of [[USAAF]] units in theaters of combat throughout World War II, and in other roles for the RAF. Its main use was in [[European Theatre of World War II|Europe]], where its shorter range and smaller bombload relative to other aircraft did not hamper it as much as in the [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater|Pacific Theater]]. Peak USAAF inventory (in August 1944) was 4,574 worldwide.<ref name="Baugher Squads" />

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