B-17 Flying Fortress units of the United States Army Air Forces 2d Bombardment Group, Langley Field, Virginia on 11 January 1936; the first production B-17B was delivered on 29 March 1939 also to the 2nd Bombardment Group. A total of 12,677 production Fortresses was built before production came to an end. In August 1944, the Boeing B-17 equipped no less than 33 overseas combat groups. The last Boeing-built B-17G was delivered to the USAAF on 13 April 1945. Following the end of World War II, the Flying Fortress was rapidly withdrawn from USAAF service, being replaced by the B-29 Superfortress. Literally thousands of Fortresses used in combat in Europe by Eighth
81st Flying Training Wing (World War II) 81st Training Wing, established on 15 April 1948 at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, and this organization. The mission of the wing was to provide both Classification and Preflight stage training to air cadets which had completed Training Command basic indoctrination training. Once the cadet successfully completed the training at the center, they would be assigned to one of the AAF primary flight schools for initial flying training. 81st Flying Training Wing (World War II) The 81st Flying Training Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Western Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on