Built from 1936 to 1945, about 45 intact Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress remain. Today, less than 10 are estimated to still be airworthy. There were 12,731 B-17s produced in total, of which 4,735 were ...

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...

The bulk of the United States' industrial war effort in World War II went into the production of aircraft and naval vessels. The Army's vehicles, like tanks, were a comparatively small part of the ...

A U.S. Air Force B-17 'Flying Fortress' bomber flies through the sky. A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently working ...

Mike Kindya remembers his last mission on a B-17 bomber as fighting in the European Theater wound down in early May 1945. German forces had just surrendered in Holland, and people there were starving.

The U.S. Geological Survey will be flying airplanes over parts of Eastern Iowa starting this month to help make new maps for ...

This article was previously published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of “Stars and Stripes.” Several summers ago I was relaxing on our back porch in central Pennsylvania. I heard a very familiar rumble ...