Lt Glenn Rojohn of the 8th Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group was flying his B-17 Flying Fortress on a raid over Germany. What ...

The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far ...

U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Milton L. Hymes, Jr., a navigator on a B-24J bomber, was killed in a crash over the Baltic Sea in 1944.

SIOUX CITY — The B-17 Flying Fortress involved in a deadly mid-air ... some of them veterans. It crashed after colliding with a P-63 Kingcobra during a show at a Dallas airport.

“The B-17 could likely have overflown the ... The four-engine, propeller-driven B-17G Flying Fortress bomber with 13 people aboard crashed at Bradley International Airport, north of Hartford ...

Bob Riddell, who died in the crash of a B-17 bomber at Bradley airport on Wednesday, took this photo as the aircraft taxied for take off and shared it with his friends on Facebook. (Used with ...

Childhood memories of an American B-17 bomber crashing into a Suffolk river have been recalled by an 89-year-old harbour master. The Flying Fortress ditched into the River Deben at Ramsholt ...

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WTNH) — The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on the 1944 B-17 bomber airplane crash at Bradley International Airport on Oct. 2 ...

The Schmidts and Huber were among those passengers pulled from the wreckage the morning of Oct. 2 when a historic B-17 aircraft crashed at Bradley International Airport just minutes after takeoff ...

The Nine-O-Nine, the Collings Foundation B-17 Flying Fortress that crashed in Connecticut Oct. 2, flies over Thomasville, Ala., in April 2002 during a flight from Decatur to Mobile. (John David ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The educational group that owns the B-17 bomber that crashed at a Connecticut airport, killing seven people, says it is suspending flights and its Wings of Freedom Tour ...