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

On April 8, 1944, he was the ball turret gunner for a B-24H Liberator Little Joe and was killed in action when the plane was shot down by enemy fire while on a bombing mission to Brunswick, Germany.

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

Their B-24 Liberator was shot down over a lake in the Netherlands ... radio operator G.B. Murray, gunners R. Cook and T.A. Blanchard, and tail gunner J.W. Bennett, according to the research group.

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 ...

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 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 ...