At 87 1/2 years young, Skip Shelton is a man on the move. On Nov. 10 and 11, the World War II veteran painted the nose art on the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum's B-17, the "City of Savannah." Shelton ...
Combat is chaotic. Identifying friend from foe was critical in historical hand-to-hand fighting and continues to be so in the modern age. From the earliest standing militaries in the Middle East's ...
At height of World War II, a warplane called "Michigan" with the Big House painted on its side was dropping bombs in the Pacific Theater. Now folks at the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in ...
During World War II, the massive B-29 Superfortress bombers became flying canvases for some of the most colorful—and controversial—nose art of the era. Crews painted everything from pin-up girls and ...
PORTAGE, MI – "It's beautiful, I like it." 89-year-old William Deary, a B-24 nose gunner during World War II, was all smiles as he walked around and then through the inside of an airworthy ...