Can someone really survive a 20,000-foot freefall in a shattered bomber? One B-17 tail gunner may have done just that - trapped inside the rear of the Flying Fortress as it broke apart mid-air.

Vesna Vulović, trapped in the tail section of the DC-9 as it plummeted to Earth, survived the crash in a snow-covered forest, ...

The B-2 bombers operating out of Diego Garcia have been reportedly using 30,000 lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators ...

For starters, the B-36 was heavily armed—with eight remotely operated turrets, each outfitted with dual 20-mm cannons. The turrets required multiple gunners ... Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ...

Minot was recommended as a good place for an air base as early as the 1940s when Wesley Keller, Minot, chairman of the North ...

On July 17, Doc, a restored Boeing B-29, took off ... a central fire control gunner on raids targeting Japan. Early missions were the high-altitude operations the bomber was designed for.

The bomber crews on alert during the 1962 Cuban ... At Altus Air Force Base, in the desolate tablelands of western Oklahoma, B-52E tail gunner Clyde Ketcham, an airman second class, was one ...

A new memorial is to be unveiled this weekend on the 80th anniversary of a plane crash which killed six American airmen.

As the Fallbrook Village Association celebrates and honors the brave men and women who served this country, they reflect on the extraordinary life of Fred Hannibal Fahnestock, a World War II veteran ...