Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets.

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 ...

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

An innovative new way of fighting in the air developed in the 1930s, where fighter planes were equipped with a rotating ...

Iconic Russian massive, WW2-style tank assaults are history. Analysts say Russia is losing tanks far faster than it can build ...

And at the Organ Historical Society — a group dedicated to the celebration, preservation and study of the pipe organ in the United States — an employee came across World War II-era Navy ...

To show how wildly different life was in the United States immediately following the victory in World War II, it’s important ... “Peacemaker” long-range bomber. The B-36 was originally ...

Beijing has stunned the world with secret new combat aircraft spotted in Chinese skies ... relentless rise amid Germany’s ramp-up for World War II.” The mere presence of the fuzzy photos ...

Twenty-four thousand feet above Germany’s Rhine River valley, the nine-man crew of the B-17G shivered as the winter deep-freeze pierced the bomber ... served in World War II, is buried.

SGT. JACQUELINE C. PARSONS / U.S. MARINE CORPS From atop an armored vehicle, a stinger missile is fired at a small unmanned ...