Ten crew members of Heaven Can Wait, which went down in the waters of Papua New Guinea in 1944. Staff Sgt. Eugene Darrigan is top row, second from right. Bottom row, from left are 2nd Lt. Donald ...

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 ...

A U.S. pilot who was long considered missing in action after a failed World War II mission has been found. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson of Wichita, Kansas, died in March 1944 with ...

Wednesday, August 27, 2025, marks the 82nd anniversary of a military plane crash in which four airmen were killed. The airmen killed in the crash, which occurred during World War II, were all between ...

WASHINGTON D.C. – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced that an Army Airman, declared missing in action after a 1943 plane crash during World War 2, has been accounted for. Army Air ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...