The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, a dramatic new account of the quest to build the first nuclear weapon... and the ...

It wasn't until Joe Kollmyer was in his 20s that the Texan realized his mother was the widow of a World War II bomber crewman.

This Memorial Day, John Klette, pilot of the "Flying Fortress," will be co-grand marshal of the annual Park Hills parade with his former B-17 gunner Arthur "Art" Unruh of Seattle. The 100-year-old ...

Introducing the B-17 Flying Fortress: During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Corps recognized the need for a new bomber able to reinforce the service’s fleets in Hawaii, Panama and Alaska. This ...

In 1944, workers at the nuclear reservation each chipped in to buy a Flying Fortress bomber and donated it to the U.S. Army Air Corps for missions over Europe. The B-17G, dubbed “Day’s Pay ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...

B-17 Flying Fortress: Big Gamble for Boeing Today, Boeing may be an aerospace giant, but that certainly wasn’t the case in the early 1930s when Boeing – a company with just 600 employees ...

The Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' was a significant bomber during World War II, with over 12,000 aircraft produced and serving around the world. After the war, many B-17s were scrapped, but some were ...