GOTHENBURG — Like many a veteran of many a war, Charles Stuart Bachmann long kept his memories of his World War II combat to himself. Only in recent years, family members say, has the 93-year-old ...

Alan Magee was a B-17 Bomber Gunner in World War II with one of the most amazing survival stories of World War II. He had an amazing ordeal when he was thrown from the aircraft at 20,000 feet with no ...

The Apple+ miniseries The Masters of the Air, which debuted in January 2024, tells the story of World War II aviators who served in the U.S. Army Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force. The ...

Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88. Born in Buffalo, he grew up on a small farm on Smith Road in ...

Photographer Dan Patterson recalls his extraordinary 1990 flight aboard a B-17 bomber from the film "Memphis Belle" — and the moment the pilot let him take the controls.

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...