Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets.

On Thursday evenings, Palm Springs closes off Palm Canyon Drive, the main street, for a street fair — arts, crafts, food, and ...

On April 8, 1944, a B-24 carrying Hubert, the ball turret gunner ... Following the war, the military hunted for the downed bomber with no luck. The Army declared Hubert killed in action.

Twenty-four thousand feet above Germany’s Rhine River valley, the nine-man crew of the B-17G shivered as the winter deep-freeze pierced the bomber ... the ball-turret gunner — all disappeared.

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ... The rusty framework in the foreground is a part of the ball turret mount ...

A new memorial stone which commemorates the lives lost in the Prickwillow plane crash in World War Two has been unveiled.

Staff Sergeant Glenn Black, 24, B-17 Flying Fortress ball gunner from Taholah ... Black has manned his tail turret guns in numerous attacks on enemy front line positions in support of Allied ...

There are just two airworthy Boeing B-29s left in the world, and this summer they will both be at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, ...

A pair of United States Air Force B-1B bombers taxi to be parked at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on Jan. 17, 2025, in support of Bomber Task Force 25-1. Another pair of B-1B... A pair of United ...