text: Ready To Load, 7/26/1942. In neat rows, a load of 100 pound practice bombs are ready for the bomb racks inside a B-17 flying fortress at an operational bombing base somewhere in the Northwest. Note the huge bomb bay doors swung open. In the distance a loaded plane, starting a take-off run, kicks up quite a sandstorm. To bases like this, bomber units, formed at regular Army airfields throughout the country are sent for a month’s final training before hopping off for the fighting front 7/26/42 (ACME);