Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations The Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) was the second-largest user of the B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II. There were a total of six combat groups (twenty-four squadrons) equipped with the bomber assigned to the Theater. Initially equipped with the B-17F Fortress, two bombardment groups (97th and 301st) were flown from airfields in England to Algiers and Oran in Algeria in November 1942 after the Operation Torch landings. They were assigned to the 5th Bombardment Wing, XII Bomber Command, Twelfth Air Force. The initial two combat groups were
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship The Flying Ship (Russian title "Летучий корабль"), or The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book" and Arthur Ransome in "Old Peter's Russian Tales". Uri Shulevitz illustrated a version of Ransome's tale, "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship", for which he won the Caldecott Medal in 1969. Also, a made-for-television stop motion-animated film with the same name was released in the United Kingdom in 1990. It aired as part of WGBH's children's series,