Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress March 1944. All of the aircraft were sent to reclamation, mostly at RFC Ontario in May 1945, being broken up and smelted. (A couple of the YB-40s can be seen in the 1946 movie "The Best Years of Our Lives", in the famous scene shot at the Ontario "graveyard".) No airframes were sold on the civil market. Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress The Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification for operational testing purposes of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, converted to act as a heavily armed gunship for other bombers during World War II. At the time of its
34th Flying Training Wing (World War II) transferred to meet those requirements. The schools of the wing used primarily the Beechcraft AT-11 for bombardier training. 34th Flying Training Wing (World War II) The 34th Flying Training Wing was a wing of the United States Army Air Forces. It was last assigned to the Central Flying Training Command, and was disbanded on 16 June 1946 at Midland Army Airfield, Texas. There is no lineage between the United States Air Force 34th Training Wing, established on 20 November 1940 as the 34th Bombardment Group (Heavy) at Langley Field, Virginia, and this organization. The wing supervised Training Command Flight Schools