When he arrived in England for duty with the Eighth Air Force, his crew was assigned to stripped-down B-24 Liberators, painted black to blend into the night. Hours before a mission, the ground ...

“The Mighty 8th” will dominate the American strategic ... mission against a European target, 12 U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24 bomber planes attack the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.

Two World War II veterans, R.D. Lawrence and H.B. Evans, celebrated their 102nd birthdays together with lunch Friday, Sept.

a series of updates on the B-21 were provided by a panel consisting of General Thomas Bussiere, Air Force Global Strike Command commander; Major General Jason Armagost, Eighth Air Force and Joint ...

The video shows the B-21 Raider stealth bomber taking off ... Gen. Jason Armagost, Eighth Air Force and Joint-Global Strike Operations Center commander; William Bailey, Department of the Air ...

The B-24 at Pima Air & Space was originally flown by the Royal Air Force, and left in India after the war. Fast forward to the early 1970s, when Pima Air & Space Museum acquired the plane.

would exceed 115,000 personnel from the U.S. Army Air Force. Of that total, over 47,000 were from the Eighth. Despite devastating odds, men from the "Mighty Eighth" again and again climbed into B ...

Married to Maureen for almost 65 years they lived in Norwich where Mike produced brilliant paintings of Second World War ...

Tarbert of the Air Force died weeks before his son was born ... Sargeant Tarbert was a waist gunner on a B-24, the Mairzy Doats. The plane’s co-pilot, Lt. Carroll G. Snidow, survived the ...

U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses take off from Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, during a bomber task force mission over the ...

Lee Kuberacki sought football adventure at the top. He didn't get to the NFL, but he found plenty of adventure and made 'a ...