The Flying Fortress could hold a crew of 10 and was warmed with 10 .50-caliber machine guns. The B-17 platform played an ...

"The Cold Blue" chronicles the heroism of those B-17 bomber crews of WWII who took to the sky to face the horrors of enemy fighters and clouds of flak, day after day. By James Clark Posted on May ...

The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport last fall told federal investigators he believes the pilot “froze” in ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress made its mark on history and ... The B-17G variation that saw service in the tail end of World War II was armed like no other aircraft before it, with up to a “lucky ...

We were young, gullible and innocent,” is how B-17 pilot Major John “Lucky” Luckadoo described himself and his World War II comrades during his remarks Jan. 16 at the Conversations With… program at ...

Only three more to go. Everyone at Bomber Camp had the great opportunity to meet a 100-year-old WWII B-17 pilot. Former U.S. Army Air Corps First Lieutenant Martin Agegian served in the 18th ...

The 8th Air Force was established in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor in February of 1942. The Mighty 8th ...

World War II veterans from the 388th bomb group had ... Maloney’s story as a former B-52 bomber pilot brought those connections between generations ever closer. He also honored our heroes ...

According to the agency, as of May, more than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War ... soldiers who would have been on the B-17 plane when it crashed. While the team can ...