B17s would be nice but it was the B-24 Privateers that attacked Greman Uboats. B17s flew bomb runs on shipping in the Pacific. As did the B-24s I believe. The USAAF in the ETO used B-17s just for bombing land targets. Tho British Bomber Command used B-17s as recon in search of Uboats.
Actually the B24s in SHIII are the wrong ones. Tha Navy's B-24 Privateers were of the single stablizer type, not the double stabilizers. It was the type B-24 Joseph P. Kennedy flew and was killed in. I'm suprised no one has realised this before now. But it really makes no difference to me which type they are in SHIII, the ones we have now work and do their job well.... sometimes too well. LOL
But please correct me if I'm wrong, as I usually can be.
I'm just remembering what I've read and from a couple of books on 17s and 24s that are in storage, and I can't get to right now.