On a cold November morning in 1944, Allied soldiers in Belgium watched a battle-scarred B-17 emerge from the clouds and glide ...
My wife, Kathryn, and I just read Warren Kozak’s op-ed “My Father at the Battle of the Bulge” (Dec. 16) and relived our family story. Her father, John Hyatt Edwards, was the pilot of the lead bomber ...
SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...
For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the traumatic realization that their loved ones were among the many still lost ...
What You Need to Know: The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during the Second World War. -Notably, the B-17 dropped ...