The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

An original painting of a WWII B-17 Superfortress Bomber created by David Jakupca, a Berea resident, U.S. Army Vietnam War ...

Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft ...

We were young, gullible and innocent,” is how B-17 pilot Major John “Lucky” Luckadoo described himself and his World War II comrades during his remarks Jan. 16 at the Conversations With… program at ...

Bill Patten Jr. joined the Army Air Corps in WWII and became a B-17 bomber pilot and flew 36 missions out of Italy into Germany with the 15th Air Force. After the war, he joined Butler ...

Nazi Germany was thankfully on the losing end of the ledger during World War II ... s bombers didn’t reach the heights of fame that Allied bombers, such as the American B-17 Flying Fortress ...

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...

Nestled near the Peachtree-DeKalb Airport, the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant is a hidden gem that’s been serving up history ...

They made the same trip four years ago, when they booked a trip on the B-17. The biggest difference between the two bombers they found was the size. “The 25 is smaller – at my age it’s harde ...

The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation's first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII ...