Germany designed the flawed Heinkel He-177 Greif heavy bomber to reach enemy targets far from Germany and outrun enemy fighters.

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum's rare Nakajima B5N2 'Kate'-a survivor of the type that once devastated the U.S. Pacific ...

Shot down, captured, and held in a Nazi POW camp - this Allied pilot had every reason to give up. Instead, he took the ultimate gamble and stole a German bomber to make his escape. This unbelievable ...

Maj. Donald K. Willis crash-landed his plane in Nazi-occupied Holland then stopped at cafes for beers — all while evading the ...

calisthenics and classroom learning has included instruction on the Tuskegee Airman and how the pioneering Black pilots played a vital role in the Allied war effort. Well before World War II ...

Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over the country from the manufacturer to be loaded on to aircraft carriers, or ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...

Some bombers like the B-17 had eating in the cockpit, but that didn't help the rest of the plane. Flight crews and pilots ...

For everyone who flew Operation Manna-Chowhound missions, “It was the proudest moment of my wartime career.” “A tear ran down ...