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 ...

Family members gathered today to fulfill a promise decades in the making — bringing him back to the place he left as a young ...

Today’s column is the second of two on the deadly crash of a B-17G “American Maid” bomber in Nazi Germany and the memorial celebration held nearly 80 years later with the crew’s families and ...

On May 29, 1944, an American B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Miss Ponnie" crashed while on a bombing mission over Nazi-occupied Austria. Georg Reutter's mother watched the plane go down from her house ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...

The B-17 bomber “Memphis Belle” was one of the first bombers to fly 25 missions. The War Department made a stirring documentary about the bomber’s final mission over a German port city. The ...

The United States produced so many weapons during World War II that it was nicknamed “The Arsenal of Democracy.” One weapon it didn't make, however, was a really, really big bomb. Faced with the ...

To those who love old planes, it's a breathtaking experience. You climb aboard a vintage bomber, hear the rumble as its four propellers roar to life, then fly off into the wild blue yonder to ...

What began as any other B-17 to roll out of the Boeing assembly line and became an aircraft of legendary status. The reason for “Memphis Belle” being a legend? Belle was one of the first heavy bomber ...

Maj. John “Lucky” Luckadoo, the last surviving B-17 pilot of the Eighth Air Force’s famed “Bloody Hundredth” Bombing Group, died in his home Sept. 1, his family announced. He was 103. “The Major left ...

Remnants of Hurricane Florence kept the Madras Maiden away from East Tennessee on Monday, but the 74-year-old B-17 bomber is still expected to offer rides and ground tours at Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge ...

The US Air Force now fields some of the most advanced bombers that have ever flown and is working on the next one to join its fleet. Those aircraft, a cornerstone of the US's ability to dominate ...