Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets.

Cheryl Dickinson holds the tongs her father used to handle white-hot steel at the Crucible steel mill in Geddes. She is also ...

Blending military experience with model making skill, Warhammer 40,000 fan Adam Huenecke lays the Leman Russ bare in a ...

Still, the crew of No. 2 aft gun turret fired off six more shells at ... and was assigned to Roberts in April 1944. A Gunner’s Mate Third Class, Carr was in command of Mount 52 throughout ...

Yuen Hop, 20, of California, a waist gunner; Tech. Sgt ... That’s where his brother, who also served in World War II, is buried. Nyberg’s relatives have decided to inter him at Arlington ...

In 1943, his uncles Hubert and Herbert Yeary marched off to fight in WWII. The siblings were just ... On April 8, 1944, a B-24 carrying Hubert, the ball turret gunner, took off from England.

Glenn was headed to Italy, where he would serve as a ball turret gunner on B-17s flying bombing ... Before doing his part in World War II, Glenn fell in love with Marion. They had met when they ...

World War II veteran Wingate “Wink” Marion Collins, born Jan. 29, 1925, turned 100 years old last week. Wink celebrated with ...

The Warbirds of Glory Museum, located in New Hudson, is bringing people from multiple generations together as they work ...

A new memorial stone which commemorates the lives lost in the Prickwillow plane crash in World War Two has been unveiled.