Bill Schock officially became a B-17 co-pilot with the 384th Bomber Group, part of the Mighty 8th Air Force ... belongs to every man who rode a Flying Fortress in World War II.

Smith, who resides at 200 Packer St., Andalusia, is a gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress with the 95th Bombardment Group. He has recently been awarded the first oak leaf cluster to the Air Medal for ...

The reflecting pool at The National Museum of the Mighty 8th Air Force in Pooler ... Eighth Air Force includes a fully-restored B-17 "Flying Fortress" and the multimedia "Mission Experience ...

The backbone of this effort was the venerable B-17 Flying Fortress. Florida State University shooting leaves at least one dead Snoop Dogg’s Trick for Cooking Bacon Is Genius Supreme Court poised ...

The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far from home. The B-17 was bristling with defensive weapons and could ...

the U.S. 8th Air Force bombed during the day, and the B-17 proved especially well-suited for the task—yet it came at a steep price. As noted in the Apple+ series, the Flying Fortress was easy to ...

[Credit: United States Office Of War Information, courtesy Library of Congress archives] Boeing’s Plant No. 2 in Seattle, arguably the birthplace of the B-17 Flying Fortress, predates the entry ...

[Courtesy: Aviation Museum of New Hampshire] The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire marked Veterans Day over the weekend by taking possession of a part of a B-17 Flying Fortress flown by a Granite ...

Piloting a B-17 Flying Fortress, the men faced heavy flak from ... James Kolofa while serving in the 8th Air Force 457th Bomb Group, 748th Bomb Squadron during WWII in the 1940s.

Encouraged by his mother, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was eventually assigned as a ball-turret gunner in the belly of a B-17 Flying Fortress in the Mighty 8th Air Force’s 381st Bomb ...