The B-17 Flying Fortress was born from a 1934 request by the U.S. Army Air Corps for a four-engine bomber. Boeing responded with a prototype that took to the skies in 1935.

FILE - Tuskegee Airmen, from left, Audley Coulthurst of New York, William Johnson of Glen Cove, N.Y., Wilfred R. DeFour of New York, and Herbert C. Thorpe of Rome, N.Y., are honored by members of ...

Washington – The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs – the female World War II pilots who played a ...

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force has commemorated Memorial Day all weekend long with its annual “Flags for the Fallen” tribute. Since Friday, 26,000 flags have ...