In November 1944, a U.S. B-17 bomber returned from a mission with no crew aboard. The aircraft flew for miles and made a violent but survivable landing on its own. Soldiers who searched the plane ...

See rare WWII bomb crew artifacts and atomic veterans stories at The Highground exhibit, open daily until March 1.

Malcolm Rubin grew up in Elmira and, after studying at Cornell University, joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Rubin was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down in November 1944 over ...

After more than eight decades, the mystery of a missing World War II aircraft and its Australian crew has finally been solved ...

During World War II air gunners made up a staggering share of bomber crew losses, leading British scientists to quietly question whether removing gun turrets and gunners could actually save lives.

Southwest Florida played a crucial role in preparing men for World War II, with more than 50,000 men training in the region. WINK News Navy veteran Richard Kolko and photographer McChesny Hughes ...

Franz Stigler, a German fighter pilot, spared American bomber pilot Charles Brown during World War II, illustrating how ...

A crew had just watched their bombs drop over Kyushu, Japan when flak hit their aircraft and an engine caught fire. Before their B-29 bomber exploded, one man died on board and another was fatally ...

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had ...