On this day in aviation history, December 29, 1939, the first prototype of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator made its first ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that 20-year-old U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sergeant Hubert Yeary ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress made its mark on history and became among the most famous aircraft of the Second World War.

The wing of the bomber in which Ray Bennett served as a gunner took heavy damage on Dec. 24, 1944 ... My father was a left waist gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber.

David MacHauer, second from right, and his fellow crew members of the Miss Bea Havin’, a B-17G bomber of the 487th ... One of MacHauer’s crew mates, waist gunner Neil F. Matz, described ...

David MacHauer and his fellow crew members of the Miss Bea Havin', a B-17G bomber of the 487th Bomb ... One of MacHauer’s crew mates, waist gunner Neil F. Matz, described a feeling of ...

Christmas Eve, 1944, behind enemy lines near the Germany-Belgium border at an altitude of about 25,000 feet, 20-year-old Loyola New Orleans law student David MacHauer was manning two machine guns from ...