For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought near ruinous casualty numbers. The odds of a B-17 crewman surviving the 25 missions required to complete a tour were only one in ...
As the nation reflects on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, CAF Airbase Georgia—one of the largest flying ...
The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...
Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...
U.S. military forces are restoring the historic World War II airfield at North Field Air Base on Tinian, reclaiming it from jungle growth in a $409 million, five-year project. The reclaimed airfield ...
Lesson plans that include videos of the Tuskegee Airmen, groundbreaking Black pilots known for their service during World War II, and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War ...
MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Commemorative Air Force Lobo Wing is in the process of restoring a plane used to train bombardier students for World War II. An AT-11 that started its journey in ...
LYONS, N.Y. — The remains of a World War II Army solider from Lyons have been identified after decades of being unidentifiable. The Veterans Service Agency of Wayne County announced Wednesday the ...
WASHINGTON — A Washington County native and Army Air Forces airman killed during World War II has finally been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said on Thursday that 2nd Lt. Donald ...
World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, and is a topic that is popular in the media. The primary reasons for this are, of course, the scale of it, and the fact that there was a ...