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. Donald Trump's ...

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

The U.S. Military still has guns in use that were developed in the late 1970s to over 100 years ago. Of course, the military ...

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 ...

Near the end of the war, the average age of a B-17 crew member in 1944 was 19 to 22, with pilots and co-pilots somewhat older and gunners, radio operators, and flight engineers a little younger, some ...

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 ...

Two U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base touched down in the UK on Feb. 11, 2025 to kick off the ...

Iran is "not seeking nuclear weapons," President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed on February 6. Ha! No one believed him, because the UN says Iran is within weeks of producing enough enriched uranium for ...