The powerful heavy bomber can carry more than 17,000 lbs of armament It can be argued that the "Flying Fort" was the most impactful American bomber in the European Theater of WWII. Simple Flying ...

By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber ... known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one of the ...

Following its entry into World War II, the United States switched over ... The United Kingdom and the United States were the ...

LONDON, June 2, 1944 (UP) -- R.A.F. heavy bombers, embarked upon a campaign to ruin Nazi rail communications in Western Europe, attacked German targets in enemy-occupied territory again during the ...

BBC/Olivia Richwald RAF Elvington was the only base used by French heavy-bomber squadrons in WW2 The ceremony was also attended by Sebastien Bidaud, Deputy Head of Mission at the French embassy.

As the designer of the Lancaster, the RAF’s workhouse heavy bomber of WW2, Roy Chadwick deserves to be lauded as a ‘Great’; it was his invention that delivered perhaps the most famed precision air ...

Christmas Eve, 1944, behind enemy lines near the Germany-Belgium border at an altitude of 25,000 feet, 20-year-old Loyola law ...