The B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator waged parallel bombing campaigns across Europe, but one aircraft proved 80 ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Merrill E. Brewer, 26, of Monticello, Maine, was the waist gunner aboard a B-24 Liberator ...

Donations sought to fund the restoration, repair, and maintenance of a dozen iconic WWII-era aircraft.

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

The family of a soldier who was missing after World War II, and then was accounted for in December of last year. Has now ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The annual Warbird Weekend Static Aviation Show will return to Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) Oct. 4 and Oct. 5. The event features rare historic aircraft, ...

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - On Saturday, veterans from the Second World War took to the skies in a vintage plane, honoring their service in the war. This comes just weeks away from the 80th anniversary ...

The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...

"Star Wars" is pretty much World War II in space. Not just because of the overarching plot involving an evil empire and dogfights between airplanes/spacecraft, but because so much of the first movie — ...