March 6th, 1944. Twenty-three thousand feet over Germany. A B-17 Flying Fortress faced twelve Messerschmitt Bf 109s. In the ...

On July 30, 1943, during a massive U.S. raid over Germany involving 186 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 123 P-47 Thunderbolts, the ...

The is the story of three tail gunners from World War II that cheated death and survived a fall from 20,000 feet in the B=17 ...

Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88. Born in Buffalo, he grew up on a small farm on Smith Road in ...

GOTHENBURG — Like many a veteran of many a war, Charles Stuart Bachmann long kept his memories of his World War II combat to himself. Only in recent years, family members say, has the 93-year-old ...

World War II veteran Beryl Kindred, 86, still remembers bailing out of his plane, then discovering a tear in his parachute. Kindred was a tail-gunner on a B-17 bomber, stationed in Molesworth, England ...

His first mission was so frantic, Jim Harper says he wanted to become a cook. He can joke about it now. But not then, as the tail-gunner aboard a B-17 bomber over Europe. "We were attacked by 250 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Arthur Herbert Moon passed away this past week after a long and memorable 98 years. The World War II veteran served as a tail gunner for the B-17s throughout Europe. NewsChannel ...

Apr. 15—On April 25, Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum will hosts its third World War II History roundtable presentation, in which the wartime experiences of Ray Perry — former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...

Col. Michael Manion, then the 55th Wing commander, talks with World War II veteran Gail Farrell of Bellevue during a 2018 ceremony honoring Farrell at Offutt Air Force Base. Farrell, survived 21 ...

>> IN WASHINGTON, I’M SALLY KIDD. TOMMIE: A 96-YEAR-OLD VETERAN IN COUNCIL BLUFFS RECEIVED A SPECIAL MILITARY AWARD FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. MARK JENSEN IS AN ADVOCATE FOR VETERANS. HE BELIEVED ...