Lieutenant Jack Mathis, lead bombardier on a massive 100-plane mission over German submarine yards, is fatally wounded when ...

Lake Ronkonkoma native William Thomas Cleary was flying a mission near Italy in 1944 during World War II when the Nazis shot down his B-17 bomber and it crashed into the Adriatic Sea. The 21-year-old ...

Some of the most capable aircraft ever flown by the U.S. military came with an unspoken cost: extraordinary logistical ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...

The B-24 Liberator was faster and longer-ranged, but the B-17 Flying Fortress could take more punishment and bring its crew home. With tighter formations and rugged design, the B-17 proved 80 percent ...

Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, the future home of the B-21 nuclear-capable bomber, has upgraded its runway as part of preparations for the stealth aircraft's arrival. The base, originally ...

The United States nuclear-capable bomber fleet saw its capabilities bolstered when a B-2 stealth aircraft—the same type used to strike Iran in June—that was significantly damaged in an incident four ...

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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 ...

The B-17 that starred in the 1990 film "Memphis Belle" undergoes restoration at Palm Springs Air Museum, where it will soon return to airshow circuits, carrying forward the legacy of World War II ...

Witness a complete WWII strategic bombing mission over Germany, from the initial briefing to the perilous return, in this fully restored and colorized version of the 1944 classic documentary, “Target ...