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A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently ...
Overshadowed by the B-17 and underpowered for modern war, the B-18 Bolo still played a key role in early U.S. airpower. But when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the Bolo's fate was sealed. This is the ...
One of the most fascinating aspects of warbird history is not just the aircraft themselves-but the improbable paths they've ...
Mr. Moffitt, who served as a flight engineer and fired the top turret guns on a B-17 bomber, died Saturday at ... his plane suffered heavy damage to the engines causing the crew to ditch in ...
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Wednesday showed seven destroyed bombers on the tarmac at a Russian air base in eastern Siberia, one of the targets Ukraine said it struck with ...
Satellite imagery shows China landed two of its most advanced bombers in the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea ...
Four enormous radial engines on the newly restored Boeing B-29 Doc are firing up nearby. It’s July 17, and here—near the site of the factory where the bomber was built in 1944—a crowd of ...
One of the strangest dogfights—involving three four-engine bombers—occurred in World War II. It happened the morning of August 17, 1943, when an American B-24D Liberator encountered a pair of ...
Germany designed the flawed Heinkel He-177 Greif heavy bomber to reach enemy targets far from Germany and outrun enemy ...