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

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...

We spent days compiling data from 684 real B 17 combat missions. The results shatter the popular myth. In Part 2, we reveal ...

August 28, 1943 - Eight B-17F “Flying Fortresses” Bombers were returning to the Army Airfield Base in Harvard on Aug. 28, 1943 when three collided. One of the bombers crash landed and two were ...

Maj. John “Lucky” Luckadoo, the last surviving B-17 pilot of the Eighth Air Force’s famed “Bloody Hundredth” Bombing Group, died in his home Sept. 1, his family announced. He was 103. “The Major left ...

For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the traumatic realization that their loved ones were among the many still lost ...

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

DALLAS — John "Lucky" Luckadoo, of Dallas, the last surviving B-17 bomber pilot from the 100th Bomb Group during World War II, has died at the age of 103. Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, where ...