In the late 1940s, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress crashed into Lake Mead during a classified postwar operation ...

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...

The B-17 bomber, also known as the Flying Fortress, helped change the course of World War II. Manufactured by Boeing, over 12,000 were made for combat. It was dubbed a flying fortress due to its ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

Watch biographer discuss fate of Elmira WWII airman whose bomber was shot down in Germany Robert Steele wrote a book about 10 airmen, including Elmiran Malcolm Rubin, who were killed in a World War II ...

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