"The B-17 is an 80-year-old airplane and we've ... B-17s were primarily used as bombers during World War II, but the planes also served other uses, such as transport, antisubmarine and search ...

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 ...

Dan Anderson looked at the World War II era bomber parked on the tarmac ... as a 21-year-old Army Air Force captain – flew B-17 bombers similar to the Liberty Belle, a restored bomber that ...

A restored B-29 Superfortress, known as Doc, is visiting Palm Springs. Doc is one of just two airworthy Superfortresses in ...

Standing tall in the main room is the B-36J Peacemaker, with only three others left in the world. This giant counts as the ...

America has made many great airplanes, but this wasn't one of them. Toward the war's end, many of them went straight from the ...

We can't win the peace unless we fight hunger. We have to get back into action like the U.S. and Allies were at the end of ...

Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday against the Collings Foundation over the fatal crash of its World War II B-17G bomber at Bradley International Airport Oct. 2. Seven people died in the fiery crash ...

There were three other men also aboard the plane. B-25 bombers were among the most famous American planes used in World War II, according to the National Museum of the United States Air Force ...

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

It was the "spirit of the day" that drew Bill Purdy to the air force during World War II. The now-centenarian still remembers being called up as a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1942. "The war had been ...