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B-17 Flying Fortress "Sentimental Journey" makes a tour stop in Savannah for Memorial Day
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoMemorial Day honors those service men and women who gave their last full measure of devotion to...
The US Air Force's newest stealth bomber offers hope amid America's shrinking bomber fleet
Business Insider· 3 days agoWith aging aircraft retiring or undergoing maintenance, the shrinking US bomber fleet underscores...
World War II-era B-17 bomber on display at EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh
FOX 11 Green Bay· 4 days agoA piece of World War II history is now on display in Oshkosh. Measuring over 74 feet long and...
A writer takes stock of his father-in-law's service in the Mighty Eighth during World War II
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoEventually it would send 2,000 four-engine bombers and 1,000 fighters on a single mission, winning...
A crash landing in Nazi Germany. A tearful memorial ceremony 79 years later.
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 1 day agoFamily members of the doomed B-17 bomber "American Maid" crewmen traveled to Osterby, Germany, for a...
B-17 gunner’s remains buried in North Carolina 80 years after bomber went down in France
Stars and Stripes· 6 days agoA U.S. Army Air Forces staff sergeant was laid to rest Monday in North Carolina, eight decades after...
World War II veteran who turns 103 on Memorial Day recalls his months as POW in Germany
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoArmy Air Forces in 1942. By that time, he said, he was married and putting out fires for the U.S....
B-17 Aluminum Overcast returns to EAA Aviation Museum
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoOSHKOSH – A historic World War II bomber is coming back home. The EAA Aviation Museum is set to...
Archaeologists work to find missing pilot
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe pilot was flying a B-17 bomber when he died [Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Archaeologists searching for a missing ...
Bud Anderson, America’s last World War II ‘triple ace,’ dies at 102
Air Force Times· 7 days agoBrig. Gen. Clarence “Bud” Anderson, the last American fighter pilot known as a “triple ace” for...