The Dornier Do 17 entered the war as a speed weapon — a bomber designed to strike fast and escape before fighters could respond. In Poland and France, it worked, helping drive the early Blitzkrieg ...
SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...
The B-17G Flying Fortress that Art Lacey bought never saw combat in World War II—but spent decades overlooking a gas station in western Oregon. A particular Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, known today as ...
SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Work to salvage the sole surviving German Dornier Do-17 bomber plane flown in the Battle of Britain in World War Two began on Friday, more than 70 years after it crashed into the ...
What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during the Second World War. -Notably, the B-17 dropped ...
Lorraine Hanson, left, of Grand Forks, N.D., and Dixie Peterson of West Fargo walk around a B-17 bomber and take a close look Friday at the Fargo Air Museum. The B-17 Flying Fortress - also called the ...
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A 97-year-old Georgia veteran took to the skies for a historic flight Sunday afternoon in honor of Veterans Day. Herman Tannenbaum served in the Air Force during World War II ...