2nd Lt Robert E Femoyer, Medal of Honor recipient, WWII. (Air Force Photo) 2nd Lt. Robert E. Femoyer was bleeding out on the floor of his B-17's nose when the crew tried to give him morphine. He waved ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...

Surrounded by enemy fighters, outgunned and alone—a single B-17 faced eight Japanese Zeroes in a desperate battle for survival. This is the intense, true story of that mission and the crew’s fight to ...

SEATTLE — A B-17 Bomber aircraft, an icon of World War II, made quite the impression on its flight into Seattle on Monday. Like the aircraft's name, it is a 'sentimental journey' for both the aircraft ...

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 ...