PEGASUS BRIDGE, France -- When the 5,000th B-17 bomber built after Pearl Harbor rolled out of its Boeing factory, teenage riveter Anna Mae Krier made sure it would carry a message from the women ...

Hewas drafted into the United States Army Air Corps in 1942 and participated in a year-long training to be part of a B-17 crew as a radio operator ... by two Russians on horseback who were as happy to ...