What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during the Second World War. -Notably, the B-17 dropped ...

First Lieutenant John Justice watched the sky dissolve into chaos as Messerschmitts ripped through his formation on the way ...

It was a homecoming of sorts for Jack Hitt and Gerald Gentis. When the B-17 bomber rolled out onto the apron Friday at Jones Riverside Airport, it released a flood of memories for Hitt, 91, and Gentis ...

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...

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 ...