The B-17 Flying Fortress symbolized American air power in WWII—but flying it over Europe was anything but glorious. Facing flak bursts, enemy fighters, and freezing conditions, USAAF crews ...

Some bombers like the B-17 had eating in the cockpit, but that didn't help the rest of the plane. Flight crews and pilots ...

Lieutenant George F. Wilson Jr was flying in a B-17G "Flying Fortress" bomber when a hail of antiaircraft fire struck the ...

The Willow Run bomber plant helped the US win World War II and was the birthplace of the Chevrolet Corvair and Nova. Can it ...

A Utah family is getting ready to lay to rest U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George Frank Wilson on the 81st anniversary of his ...

Nearly 80 years after his death on the European Theater of World War II, a Bountiful pilot has been accounted for.

The remains of a Bountiful pilot who died during World War II have been identified nearly 80 years after his plane was shot down over France, military officials ...

From Fort Worth, this copilot of a B-17 that was shot down is remembered on the Walls of the Missing at the Netherlands ...

The dog tag of a World War Two soldier who was one of 31 United States service personnel killed in a plane crash on a Manx ...

As I went through my father’s “390th” files, it became clear to me that both he and my mother had taught my five siblings and me the importance of maintaining ...