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Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, a dramatic new account of the quest to build the first nuclear weapon... and the ...
“Look at how incredible crew fatigue could be on a B-17 bomber ... The B-29, the bomber that ended World War II, went from drawing board to combat in under four years. A feat that will likely ...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or in this base, the bomb-holder. These warplanes may take the fight to the enemy, but ...
Kenworth has a longstanding history within the American trucking industry. Here's everything you need to know about how the company was started.
Former Essendon captain Dyson Turner-Heppell has credited an inspirational friendship with a gutsy teen fighting a rare and debilitating condition for helping him find purpose after AFL footy.
Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of postponing a large-scale exchange of captured soldiers, hours after Moscow's army ...
The Flying Fortress. A name that conjures up images of brave young men conducting daylight raids deep in enemy territory, far ...
A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently ...
Young, barely out of school, and facing enemy flak at 25,000 feet—this was life aboard a B-17 bomber in WWII.
If the B-17 bomber being restored in Salem is to ever fly again, it needs new propellers. The original propeller blades have quarter-inch holes drilled in them, used to hang banners from the ...
Lt. Col. Eric Alvarez, a weapons systems officer (WSO) and commander of the 345th Bomb Squadron which flies the B-1B Lancer bomber from Texas’ Dyess AFB, crossed the 5,000 flight hours ...