Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...
Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's finally getting his medal.
Woodrow A. Harrelson, 1st Lt., U.S. Army Air Corps, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Harrelson and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ive M. Harrelson of Rt. 2, Andalusia, has recently been assigned to the Navigation School ...
and B-24 Liberator or Great Britain’s Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax, did. That said, it’s time to “give the devil his due,” as the saying goes. The Third Reich’s arms industry ...
50-caliber guns in a Plexiglas turret mounted on the tail of a B-24 Liberator over Floridsdorf ... dropped four tons of bombs on a refinery, the pilot dodging heavy flak as he set a course ...
Harold "Bud" Pressel was awarded the Purple Heart he earned in 1944 when his bomber was shot down over Germany and he was ...
A commercial airline pilot acknowledged this week’s deadly ... nervous passengers on a flight that took off less than 24 hours after the disaster. “You might be fearful of flying, and that ...
Ivan Bolotov, a 24-year-old Ukrainian pilot and captain of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade, was killed during a combat mission, the brigade said on Feb. 3. "He was only 24, but he was a competent ...
Felix Shostak, then 24, of Proctor, Vermont, was one of nine men aboard a B-24 Liberator that bombed a German-held site in France on Aug. 18, 1944. The aircraft, nicknamed the “Flying Coffin ...
Pressel, who attained the rank of sergeant, earned the honor when his B-24 Liberator was shot down after ... serving as a co-pilot in a B-24, flying out of the same base in Italy where Pressel ...
While Christmas Eve is the setting of the film, it has little or nothing to do with Christmas; it’s primarily a biographical account of its main character, George Bailey, an ambitious, kind-hearted ...