Discover the story of Capt. Dewayne "Ben" Bennett, B-17 pilot of the Squawkin' Chicken, who survived the Schweinfurt raid and ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (Tribune News Service) — Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York after ...

In the brutal aerial battleground of World War II, German Bf 109 fighters often tore through Allied bomber formations—but one attack stands out above the rest. This video reconstructs the moment a ...

On May 29, 1944, an American B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Miss Ponnie" crashed while on a bombing mission over Nazi-occupied Austria. Georg Reutter's mother watched the plane go down from her house ...

STAMFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — News 8 looks back at the history of the WWII B-17 military aircraft that caught fire with 13 passengers on board at Bradley International Airport Wednesday morning. News 8’s ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The FAA continues to investigate what caused a historic B-17 World War II-era bomber to crash into a building shortly after taking off from a Connecticut airport killing 7 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Lynn Ikerd was a 16-year-old teenager in Flint, Michigan, when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor over the radio. By that time, the young man had already decided he ...

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 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A B-17 pilot killed in the mid-air collision of two World War II-era military planes at a Dallas air show on Saturday was a Bend Senior High School graduate who learned to fly when ...