On December 20, 1943, a badly damaged American B-17 was struggling home from a raid over Bremen when a German fighter pilot ...

A rare airworthy B-17 bomber, “Sentimental Journey,” returned to Boeing Field to celebrate the Flying Fortress’s 90th anniversary with public tours, honoring its legacy and historic production. On ...

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the extraordinary B-17 Flying Fortress bomber played an enormous part in the Allied victory in World War II. The B-17 was the most prolific bomber in the U.S ...

The B-17 “Sally B,” one of the last airworthy Flying Fortresses in the world, takes to the sky in a rare and unforgettable ...

EUGENE — A strong jerk and a plume of smoke served as a signal that the engines on the World War II B-17G Aluminum Overcast bomber had started up. Inside, the machine gun turrets rumbled with the ...

The oldest B-17G still in service with the 91st Bomb Group and the next to last B-17 lost to hostile action by the group met a horrifying fate in the skies over Germany on April 8, 1945, just 30 days ...

Too capable to simply fly away into the sunset, we look at the brilliant aircraft that decided that age is just a number and ...

For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the traumatic realization that their loved ones were among the many still lost ...

Dorsal fins on aircraft, first appearing around the mid-1930s in various forms, were initially thought to enhance directional stability, as demonstrated by early implementations on planes like the ...

Andrea Humpert of Cheshire takes her father's dog tags for one more flight in a B-17 on Thursday in Eugene. Humpert won a flight in Aluminum Overcast, a WWII era B-17 bomber operated by the ...