At Dubois man says he was “amazed” to learn that, after all these years, the remains of his uncle from Williamsport, who died in a plane crash while on a World War II mission, had been retrieved from ...

Lloyd Henry Jennings was so unassuming that if you asked about what he did for a living, he’d say he was “in sales.” You’d never guess he was a stockbroker. You’d also never guess that ...

Arnold S. Smith, a waist gunner aboard another plane in the formation, said at the time. "I could see no evidence that bodies remained at the surface." The wives, parents and siblings of the men ...

After dropping death and destruction from 30,000 feet for months, B-17 pilots like Capt. Earl W. Reynolds left his two waist gunners and his ball turret gunner at their base and took three of his ...

Beckman went on to serve as a navigator within the 305th Bomb Group while Cook was a waist/ball gunner and toggler for the 379th. Beckman attributed his desire to be an aviator to his first flying ...

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.

Deep in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, a small but determined team is quietly undertaking one of the most ...

“The plane was spinning down rapidly.” He looked at the waist gunner who was in the nose of the plane with him, pointed at the altimeter and then pointed to his parachute. There was no reactio ...

For nearly a century, vets have camped on the National Mall and slept on the steps of the Capitol to rally for their benefits ...