Often, some of the most poignant World War II mysteries involve Allied air forces pilots and crew who failed to return to base or ... s fate will long continue to mystify the public. A former ...

Some bombers like the B-17 had eating in the cockpit, but that didn't help the rest of the plane. Flight crews and pilots ...

Maj. Donald K. Willis crash-landed his plane in Nazi-occupied Holland then stopped at cafes for beers — all while evading the ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

After the Pearl Harbor attack, one Japanese pilot crash-landed on an island he thought was empty—he was wrong. This is what happened next. According to ChatGPT, this is what humans will look ...

PILOT POINT — Eager customers line up outside the small barbecue spot before it opens at 11 a.m. on a recent Sunday, filing the inside once the doors open and music starts playing. Yearby’s ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WISH) — A pilot in the crash of a World War II-era plane Thursday afternoon at Terre Haute Regional Airport was flown to an Indianapolis hospital for treatment of injuries ...

President Barack Obama signs a 2009 bill awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to Women Airforce Service Pilots. By the time the recognition came, Illinois-born WASP Nadine Ramsey had died.

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II,” By Becky Aikman. Publisher: Bloomsbury. 368 pages. $31.99. Since President Donald Trump nominated a former ...

The SNJ-2s were originally used to train Allied pilots for combat during World War II. The planes can maneuver like fighter planes but move at slower speeds. As pilot Steve “SKYKING” Salmirs ...