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 ...

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

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Merrill E. Brewer, 26, of Monticello, Maine, was the waist gunner aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down over France. Belinda Carlisle, 67, Shows She’s ...

Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...

In close air support, speed and precision matter, but trust matters more. Aircraft earn that trust by showing up under fire, ...

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 ...

Dubiski Career High School students are helping restore a World War II-era airplane at the Henry B. Tippie National Aviation ...

John F. Homan, a World War II bomber pilot, spent the better part of his life insisting he was no hero. Others flew the same ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

WASHINGTON (WABI) - A World War II airman from Monticello has been accounted for by military officials. According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Merrill E.

A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

(WHTM) — abc27 salutes Robert C. McLaughlin. Of Shippensburg, he was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World ...