The strategic bombing campaign carried out by the Allies grew in strength with every passing year until literally thousands of four-engined heavy bombers like the American B-17 Flying Fortress and ...
Saturday, 22 February, marks 81 years since two B17 Flying Fortress aircraft collided in the skies above Irthlingborough whilst preparing for a bombing raid in Germany as part of “Operation ...
The plane, known as Mi Amigo, crashed in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield on 22 February 1944 while returning from a bombing raid. The pilot ... held close to where the B-17 bomber came down, at ...
The B-52, currently deployed to the UK for BTF 25-2, practiced operational coordination and communication with Israeli F-35Is ...
The bombing came after the collapse of Japanese air and naval defenses following the U.S. capture of a string of former Japanese strongholds in the Pacific that allowed B-29 Superfortress ... at the ...
Of the 104 carrier planes involved in the raid, only one SBD from Leppla’s ... registering a near miss with his 1,000-pound bomb. Their squadron mates, Lt. j.g. William Edward Hall and Seaman ...
the bomb looks like ones used by the RAF in raids like Paris-Saint Chapelle in 1944. It appears to be a case of working out a plan B at London St Pancras where passengers are scrambling to make ...
Yi, 99, narrowly escaped death in 1937 during a Japanese air raid on Nanjing, Jiangsu province when a bomb struck near her family's ancestral home. Her family fled the bombings and sought refuge ...