On July 30, 1943, during a massive U.S. raid over Germany involving 186 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 123 P-47 Thunderbolts, the B-17 Tondelayo came under fierce attack from waves of German Me 109s and ...

GOTHENBURG — Like many a veteran of many a war, Charles Stuart Bachmann long kept his memories of his World War II combat to himself. Only in recent years, family members say, has the 93-year-old ...

World War II veteran Beryl Kindred, 86, still remembers bailing out of his plane, then discovering a tear in his parachute. Kindred was a tail-gunner on a B-17 bomber, stationed in Molesworth, England ...

Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88. Born in Buffalo, he grew up on a small farm on Smith Road in ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Arthur Herbert Moon passed away this past week after a long and memorable 98 years. The World War II veteran served as a tail gunner for the B-17s throughout Europe. NewsChannel ...

His first mission was so frantic, Jim Harper says he wanted to become a cook. He can joke about it now. But not then, as the tail-gunner aboard a B-17 bomber over Europe. "We were attacked by 250 ...

Col. Michael Manion, then the 55th Wing commander, talks with World War II veteran Gail Farrell of Bellevue during a 2018 ceremony honoring Farrell at Offutt Air Force Base. Farrell, survived 21 ...

ALBANY – There was one thing Jewellee Kuenstler never figured out while talking with Ray Perry. How in the world did he get those pictures home? The late father of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry served ...

Apr. 15—On April 25, Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum will hosts its third World War II History roundtable presentation, in which the wartime experiences of Ray Perry — former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...

Arthur Moon, who served his country as a World War II tail-gunner in a B-17, turned 98 on Wednesday, and we had a chance to talk to him about those days of "The Greatest Generation." ...