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B-17 Aluminum Overcast returns to EAA Aviation Museum
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoOSHKOSH – A historic World War II bomber is coming back home. The EAA Aviation Museum is set to...
As Memorial Day arrives, Berks veterans remembered for their sacrifices
Reading Eagle, Pa. via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoWhen John Gross returned home to Wernersville after serving as a B-17 pilot in World War II, his soon-to-be wife asked if the thought of dying had ever ...
World War II-era B-17 bomber on display at EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh
FOX 11 Green Bay· 2 days agoA piece of World War II history is now on display in Oshkosh. Measuring over 74 feet long and...
B-17 gunner’s remains buried in North Carolina 80 years after bomber went down in France
Stars and Stripes· 4 days agoA U.S. Army Air Forces staff sergeant was laid to rest Monday in North Carolina, eight decades after...
Archaeologists work to find missing pilot
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe pilot was flying a B-17 bomber when he died [Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Archaeologists searching for a missing World War Two...
Look Back: Plains Twp. airman, 24, killed in B-17 crash during World War II
Times Leader· 6 days agoDonini was killed April 6, 1945, when the B-17 bomber, known as the Flying Fortress, in which he was a ball turret gunner collided with an escorting fighter ...
Bud Anderson, America’s last World War II ‘triple ace,’ dies at 102
Air Force Times· 5 days agoBrig. Gen. Clarence “Bud” Anderson, the last American fighter pilot known as a “triple ace” for...
'Hard work and fresh air' may be the secrets to a long life for 105-year-old Irene Jones
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 3 days ago“I said that would be fun, but there are none around.” She has already checked off several bucket...
Inside the England museums averaging fewer than one visitor a day
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoInside, nearly every piece of wall space is packed with military items from both world wars,...
When troops' remains are identified from long-ago wars, it's getting harder to find family members
WUNC Chapel Hill· 2 days agoNow, typical cases are like that of Staff Sgt. Robert J. Ferris Jr. Ferris was a 20-year-old turret gunner in an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber when it was ...