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

"The Cold Blue" chronicles the heroism of those B-17 bomber crews of WWII who took to the sky to face the horrors of enemy fighters and clouds of flak, day after day. By James Clark Posted on May ...

Notable B-17 Bomber Facts One point that isn't noted in the Apple+ series is that the aircraft was seen as quite a risk for ...

The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport last fall told federal investigators he believes the pilot “froze” in ...

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor of a fallen ... David Kingsley’s B-17 was about to crash. The aircraft had been riddled by enemy flak and incoming fire ...

American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilots honoured "They are one of the most popular and one of the most important airplanes that people want to see," says Mr Kinney, adding that aviation fans ...

Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine ... One person on the ground was injured as well. The vintage bomber (civilian registration number N93012) has been all but completely ...

A U.S. Army branch dedicated to identifying soldiers considered missing in action successfully located the remains of a ...

OSHKOSH – An Oshkosh woman is being honored for her contributions to EAA. Colleen Lambrecht received the Henry Kimberly ...

World War II bomber pilot Donald R ... higher and farther than the B-17 Flying Fortress model it succeeded. A few years after graduating in 1940 from Erie Academy High School in Erie, Pa., ...

Two World War II veterans celebrated their ... R.D. Lawrence was born Sept. 27 and H.B. Evans was born Sept. 2 in 1922. Evans was an engineer on a B-24 bomber, responsible for all the operational ...

According to the agency, as of May, more than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War ... soldiers who would have been on the B-17 plane when it crashed. While the team can ...