B-17 Stories

Ruby Jane never expected to wake up in the middle of a war she once only knew through the safety of a screen. Pulled into the world of the 100th Bomb Group during WWII, she quickly finds herself at Thorpe Abbots, serving as a nurse in the infirmary. At first, survival means keeping her head down, treating the endless flow of wounded, hiding her knowledge of what's to come, and guarding her heart against bonds she cannot afford to make. But bonds form anyway. Two men weave themselves into her life. One with quiet constancy, the other with teasing wit and unexpected tenderness. Ruby learns the meaning of waiting, of holding her breath each time the men she cares for disappear into the sky, and of the agony when not all of them return. Torn between past regrets and the fragile chance of something new, Ruby must face not only the war outside, but the battles within her own heart. John Brady x OC Everett Blakely x OC *English is not my first language, so please kindly correct me if there's any wrong spelling in this story, thank you.

Kimbolton Air Base, England. Early 1944. America is sending hundreds of airmen to England, scattering them across various airfields to support the Allied effort-often at the cost of their own lives. Into this harsh and unforgiving chapter of history is thrust an innocent young girl, drafted against her will and assigned as the navigator of a B-17 Flying Fortress named Kaleidoscope. Will she survive all 25 missions and meet the expectations placed upon her? Can she endure the skies-and the truths waiting for her on the ground? The story of the Kaleidoscope follows a crew who fought bravely above the clouds while carrying heavy burdens below them. The memories of the past, the traumas of the present. Hard decisions, and even harder steps-choices that forced each member of the crew to face the trials of their own existence every single day, on a path paved with flak, fear, and the unspoken weight of what war demands.

A collection of short stories and poem(s) about military aviation.

Lawrence Crowe is an old man now. 88 to be exact. He likes to sit on his floral couch and flip through the channels all day, watch the Kansas skies float past. But when he stumbles upon an old photo album from his days as a fighter pilot in the 1940s, he's forced to remember the things he'd tried hardest to forget.

After the tragic passing of his wife, Mark Myers ends up enlisting in the Army. At the height of World War 2, he crosses paths with Scarlett Franks, an Army nurse, who is also mourning the loss of her husband. Together, will they help be able to help each other heal, and find love again? Or will the deadly conflict tear them apart for good?

during a battle over the atlantic a b-17 gets shot out of the sky and crash lands into a mysterious island that takes them into another world (disclaimer , the story is fiction and b-17 flying fortress belongs to boeing.

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