U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission ...
The remains of a Massachusetts airman whose aircraft was shot down over Germany during World War II have been identified, and ...
An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a ... tail-gunner and helped the man out of the aircraft. As his crew descended under open canopies, Kingsley was last ...
In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...
It is a mystery 80 years in the making. On the early morning hours of February 18th, 1944, the “Getaway Gertie” a B-24 ...
Ideally, both the plane and crew also make it home to fight another ... held in high regard. Of all the heavy WWII bombers, the Fortress could take the most hits and still limp home.
The aircraft, A9-497, was lost during a 1944 mission when it made an emergency water landing off the coast of Darwin.
Three U.S. airmen disappeared after bailing out of a burning B-17 over Germany 80 years ago. An Offutt recovery team ...
Older residents of what is now Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, still vividly remember the horrific warplane crash there and the dramatic events that ensued in the waning days of World War II. With ...
The crew of an RAF bomber aircraft which crashed into the Humber Estuary during World War Two have been honoured at a ...
Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t ... radio communication between the crew and tower, it’s understood ...