Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.
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.
BELOIT - Beauford Udell of Beloit recently celebrated his 100th birthday on Jan. 24. He is a World War II veteran and was a Ball Turret Gunner on a B-17 bomber during the war. He worked as an ...
The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...
Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...
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 ...
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 ...
He then went to Miami, Florida, where he shipped out to fight in World War II ... and a German bomber was attacking us. One of them came straight in shooting and my turret was hit and blew ...
The pass rate for the second level of the chartered financial analyst test plunged to the lowest since the pandemic, falling below the decade average as candidates who choose to delay their exam ...
When John Dodds found a World War II bomber jacket in a Washington, D.C., thrift store, his interest was piqued. The Air Force lawyer noticed that the jacket still had its original owner’s name ...
Japanese and South Korean fighters escorted U.S. bombers on a display of air power ... hard feelings between the two lingering since World War II. Joseph Ditzler is a Marine Corps veteran and ...