Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing ...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II, but its story is full of strange twists and unexpected challenges. Designed in the 1930s, the B-17 was Boeing ...

After graduating from Waterloo West High School in 1942, Wilson served until 1946 in the U.S. Air Force, where he was an engineer and turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.

Lost for decades, WWII airman Joseph Gray's dog tag has finally been reunited with his family through a chance connection, bringing closure 80 years after a deadly plane crash.

A fan snaps a photo of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The World War II bomber will be featured at this weekend's Olympic Air Show in Tumwater. Lezlie Sterling The Sacramento Bee, file ...

The B-24 will join a restored Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, completing the story of the heavy bombers flown by the Eighth during World War II.

Rebuilding a ‘Flying fortress’ The B-17 was the most iconic bomber used by the US military during the second World War.

PARK CITY, Utah (ABC4) — A Utah family is getting ready to lay to rest U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. George Frank Wilson on the 81 st anniversary of his plane being shot down over France during WWII.

Sugg was a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot who completed 25 combat missions over France and Germany, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross in the process, and then returned to the U.S. to serve as a ...

The sole product of the factory was the Consolidated B-24 “Liberator” bomber. The aircraft could fly longer than the B-17 “Flying Fortress” but it also was harder to handle.