The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the ...

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.

More than 80 years after his plane crashed over Germany during WWII, Providence native Staff Sgt. Earle L. Dorr Jr.'s ...

BEREA, Ohio – An original painting of a WWII B-17 Superfortress Bomber created by David Jakupca, a Berea resident, U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran and environmental artist, has become a permanent ...

Bill Patten Jr. joined the Army Air Corps in WWII and became a B-17 bomber pilot and flew 36 missions out of Italy into Germany with the 15th Air Force. After the war, he joined Butler ...

Curtis Arnall was raised a cowpuncher in Cheyenne but became famous as the voice of Buck Rogers during the 1930s. The Wyoming ...

Twenty-four thousand feet above Germany’s Rhine River valley, the nine-man crew of the B-17G shivered as the ... who also served in World War II, is buried. Nyberg’s relatives have decided ...

The Buffalo native had enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December 1942, when he was 18 — or close enough, wink-wink — and was assigned to be a waist gunner on the B-17 bomber “Friday the ...

WARWICK – More than 80 years after his plane crashed over Germany during World War II, Providence native Staff ... Dorr and his 10 fellow crew members flew a B-17 Flying Fortress out of England ...

The Do 17 made its maiden flight on November 23, 1934, and was officially adopted into the operational service of “die Vaterland” in 1937. Classified as a twin-engine light bomber, it was ...

During World War II, the company that has grown to become an ... surely felt a unique bond after adorning its B-24 Liberator bombers with characters from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", as ...

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, ...