Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...
Not all military aircraft are designed for combat or reconnaissance. There are plenty created to transport whatever needs ...
As part of a strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis during World War II, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: It fought in America’s last air battle of World War II. The B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber achieved fame — and infamy — for its role ...
What does it take to become a legend? On a fateful day in 1943, a B-17 ball turret gunner risked everything to save his crew. This is the incredible story of courage, resilience, and heroism.
America at the end of the Second World War was a wildly different place. Brimming with self-confidence after having just defeated the greatest set of rivals the country had ever faced, inundated with ...
A MEMORIAL service has been held again in tribute to a Canadian air crew which died during a Second World War training flight. The six airmen perished when their Wellington Bomber BK 387 crashed ...
PFC Peter Dudenich of Ambridge and PVT William Patrick Nairn of Aliquippa are among 58 Pennsylvania soldiers who died the morning of Jan. 26, 1944, when their ship struck a Nazi mine being remembered ...
NAGOYA--A constructor worker made the unsettling discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II on Oct. 17 at a building demolition site here in the central part of the city. The worker made an ...
According to a photo posted by the U.S. Air Force's 28th Bomb Wing, a bomber unit that is located at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, a pair of B-1B bombers landed at Andersen Air Force ...
“We were young, gullible and innocent,” is how B-17 pilot Major John “Lucky” Luckadoo described himself and his World War II comrades during his remarks Jan. 16 at the Conversations With… program at ...