On July 30, 1943, during a massive U.S. raid over Germany involving 186 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 123 P-47 Thunderbolts, the B-17 Tondelayo came under fierce attack from waves of German Me 109s and ...

On November 29th, 1943, a large group of B-17 Flying Fortresses were on a mission to take out strategic targets in the industrial city of Bremen, Germany. Inside a B-17F from the 96th Bomb Group named ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 15—On April 25, Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum will hosts its third World War II History roundtable presentation, in ...

World War II veteran Beryl Kindred, 86, still remembers bailing out of his plane, then discovering a tear in his parachute. Kindred was a tail-gunner on a B-17 bomber, stationed in Molesworth, England ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Arthur Herbert Moon passed away this past week after a long and memorable 98 years. The World War II veteran served as a tail gunner for the B-17s throughout Europe. NewsChannel ...

Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88.