Boeing factories in Seattle, Washington, 1943.

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Mass production of Boeing B-17 Flying Forteresses, four-engine heavy bombers, at the Boeing Aircraft Co. of Seattle, Washington, December 20, 1943. Beginning in 1942, the Boeing factories of Seattle and Everett, Washington, were already building 150 B-17s a month, then 250 in 1943. In all, Boeing build 6,981 B-17s during the war, with Douglas delivering another 3,000 and Lockheed-Vega 2,750.

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