The turret in question could be found at the bottom of a B-17 bomber — a plexiglass ball containing two .50-caliber machine guns and a very short gunner. The sphere could pivot to fend off attacking ...

A B-52 tail gunner from the Vietnam War will be honored on Friday, Oct. 11 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), where the ...

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a fallen bomber ... tail, and the paint scheme is a mottled green and brown camouflage pattern modeled off the B-17 ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was created amidst the rising need for strategic bombers that were fast, operational at high ...

China's development of the H-20 next-generation bomber could challenge U.S. dominance in strategic long-range bombers. As the ...

Ralph Bode flew as a tail gunner on a B-24-H Liberator. Eighty years ago, on Sept. 27, 1944, Bode died at age 20 when his aircraft was shot down over Kassel, Germany. Three people on his bomber ...

Sadly seven people perished when a B-17/231909 bomber was lost in a crash on takeoff last week in Connecticut (“‘An honor for me to fly in living history,'” Oct. 5). My father was a World ...

A group of seven people from the Fox Valley all between the ages of 18 and 23, dropped everything back home to help provide hurricane relief in North Carolina and Florida.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from B-17 Flying Fortress the Bloody 100th Manage and take control of the 10-man crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress as they attempt to complete 25 harrowing ...

Strategic bombing, originating in World War I with German zeppelins bombing London, has evolved into a crucial military ...

(U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.) — A B-52 tail gunner from the Vietnam War will be honored on Friday, Oct. 11 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), where the very plane he achieved the last ...

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