Remains of WWII bomber pilot, lost in the Pacific in ’44, are identified
First Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson was one of 11 men on the B-24 shot down off New Guinea. The remains of the pilot of a downed ...
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The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany - WWII’s Forgotten Tragedy
On April 21, 1945, near the village of Oberhinkofen, Bavaria, the last B-24 Liberator of the Eighth Air Force was shot down ...
U.S. pilot killed in WWII is accounted for 80 years after bomber named "Heaven Can Wait" crashed into ocean
Airmen from other warplanes in the formation reported seeing "Heaven Can Wait" pitching up violently before banking left and plummeting into the ocean.
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Remains of WWII bomber pilot from Kansas identified
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announces that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, 24, of ...
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WWII B-29 Bomber Enola Gay Falls Victim to Pentagon’s Sweeping DEI Purge
Paul Tibbetts, Jr., of Miami, Fla., poses in front of his B-29 Superfortress ‘The Enola Gay’ (named for his mother). The Enola Gay is the same plane he piloted when his bombardier dropped the first ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers.
Remains of U.S. Army pilot killed in WWII are identified, to return to Wichita
A 24-year-old U.S. Army pilot killed during World War II will come back home to Wichita. On Tuesday, Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, ...
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Remains of WWII bomber pilot, lost in the Pacific in ’44, are identified
The B-24 bomber he flew -- nicknamed “Heaven Can Wait” — was downed by Japanese antiaircraft fire on March 11, 1944. The wreckage burned on the surface and sank in about 200 feet of water.
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers ... from Pearl Harbor to Midway” by John B. Lundstrom; “Duel: SBD Dauntless vs.