After World War II, thousands of B-17 Flying Fortresses suddenly found themselves obsolete in a rapidly changing military ...

Clark Gable left Hollywood fame behind to serve in the dangerous world of B-17 bomber crews over Nazi-occupied Europe. Flying ...

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 ...

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 ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress plane is one of the most iconic bombers of all time and ruled the skies in numbers during WWII for Allied forces.

Of all the heavy bombers flown during World War II, the Boeing-built B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most well-known and beloved. It spent most of the conflict fighting against the Germans in the ...

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 ...

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 ...