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 ...

“The first B-17 raid in Europe took place on August 17, 1942, when 12 planes attacked the railroad marshaling yards in Rouen, France. American bomber numbers continued to build in Europe and ...

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 ...