Germany designed the flawed Heinkel He-177 Greif heavy bomber to reach enemy targets far from Germany and outrun enemy ...

James “Jimmy” Boehling, of Richmond, served in World War II as the navigator for a B-17 bomber. Boehling flew just one ...

The dog tag of a World War Two soldier who was one of 31 United States service personnel killed in a plane crash on a Manx hillside has been reunited with his family 80 years on.Joseph L Gray was ...

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the ...

Memorial Day is all about parades, hot dogs, the Stars and Stripes and daylight baseball games. But it should be … and is … ...

A look at the worst USAF accidents, including Vietnam transport losses, an air show disaster, and nuclear crashes in Maryland ...

The remains of a WWII pilot who crashed and died in France 80 years ago are coming home to Utah for burial after the ...

Wilson Jr was flying in a B-17G “Flying Fortress” bomber when a hail of antiaircraft fire ... At the time, they received information from several of Wilson’s crew members detailing the crash, but ...

They vividly described the crash scene and its aftermath. The B-17 was plummeting so low that ... of the crewmen from that “American Maid” bomber. “He wanted to honor my grandfather and ...

“You’re given the controls of a four-engine bomber when you’re ... he enclosed a piece of a B-17 wing, telling the teenager it was from a crash that had killed two of his friends and ...

A report by the National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in Windsor Locks on pilot error, which it said compounded maintenance failures and ...