A B-17 pilot recalls being at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and witnessing the attack firsthand. A respectful, factual ...

Pilot error probably caused the 2019 crash of a World War II-era bomber in Connecticut that killed seven people and wounded six others, the National Transportation ...

John H. Luckadoo, the last surviving pilot from the storied 100th Bombardment Group, a war-battered unit of B-17 heavy bombers that flew missions deep over German-held territory during World War II, ...

ELSMERE, Delaware (WPVI) -- We want to wish a very special 100th birthday to a local hero. Raymond Firmani of Elsmere, Delaware, was a B-17 pilot in the 486th Heavy Bombardment Group in World War II, ...

DALLAS — John "Lucky" Luckadoo, of Dallas, the last surviving B-17 bomber pilot from the 100th Bomb Group during World War II, has died at the age of 103. Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, where ...

Mann, who plays Lieutenant Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal, the most talented B-17 pilot in the WWII-set miniseries, also confirms one surprising real-life fact from the research ("the underwear thing is ...

Update: In January 2024, the Amarillo Globe-News ran a story about Navy Lt. Frank Adams, who was killed in action in World War II during aerial attacks over Berlin. Though his body was never found, ...

In the annals of World War II aviation, few stories capture both the peril and the ingenuity of the air war over Europe as vividly as that of the 8th Air Force. His life was marked by courage, ...

At approximately 11:45 a.m., March, 18, 1945, a Sunday, the bomb-laden B-17 of Myers and his crew lumbered away from a muddy English airfield on its way to the German capital. The aircraft joined the ...

It was a homecoming of sorts for Jack Hitt and Gerald Gentis. When the B-17 bomber rolled out onto the apron Friday at Jones Riverside Airport, it released a flood of memories for Hitt, 91, and Gentis ...