A dramatic story about a B-17 tail gunner named Michael “Mike” Donovan has circulated online, but reliable records for the ...

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 ...

Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over Piraeus Harbor in Greece. As he plunged toward the unforgiving earth, Army Air ...

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.