Eight decades ago, a World War II B-17 bomber plunged into the depths of the Baltic Sea, taking with it a crew of Allied airmen and their mission details. Today, scientists are finally unearthing the ...
The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...
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 ...
World War II D-Day landing in France, June 6, 1944. Henry W. Harris was a crewmember aboard a B-17 bomber on June 6, 1944, a mission in which his group of 64 planes dropped bombs to pave the way for ...