The B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator waged parallel bombing campaigns across Europe, but one aircraft proved 80 percent more efficient. Better handling, tighter formations and superior ...

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

The B-24 Liberator was faster and longer-ranged, but the B-17 Flying Fortress could take more punishment and bring its crew ...

Built in 1941, Diamond Lil was one of the first Liberators to enter combat. B-24s were used in every theater of the war. Diamond Lil was saved from the scrapyard to become one of the first aircraft to ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The annual Warbird Weekend Static Aviation Show will return to Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) Oct. 4 and Oct. 5. The event features rare historic aircraft, ...

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...

The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - On Saturday, veterans from the Second World War took to the skies in a vintage plane, honoring their service in the war. This comes just weeks away from the 80th anniversary ...

"Star Wars" is pretty much World War II in space. Not just because of the overarching plot involving an evil empire and dogfights between airplanes/spacecraft, but because so much of the first movie — ...

The family of a soldier who was missing after World War II, and then was accounted for in December of last year. Has now ...