These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, serial 44-83868, displayed in the markings of the 332nd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, 1945. The B-17 was the backbone of the USAAF's daylight strategic bombing campaign over Europe, capable of absorbing enormous battle damage while maintaining formation — a quality that made it legendary among its crews and feared by its enemies. Built by Douglas Aircraft Corporation at Long Beach, California in July 1945, 44-83868 arrived too late for combat and instead transferred almost immediately to the US Navy, converted to a PB-1W maritime patrol and airborne early warning aircraft with an APS-20 radar in a ventral radome. It served with several Navy squadrons including a detachment in Norway before being retired in 1955 and sold as surplus. After years as a civilian fire bomber in the western United States — dropping retardant on forest fires in Oregon, Washington and California as Tanker 65 — it was restored to military configuration by TBM Inc. in California in 1982-83 and donated to the RAF Museum by the US Air Force Museum in exchange for an Avro Vulcan. It made its final flight from Duxford to Stansted on 7 November 1983, having accumulated 5,724 flying hours, and has been on display at Hendon since January 1984.