Christmas Eve, 1944, behind enemy lines near the Germany-Belgium border at an altitude of about 25,000 feet, 20-year-old ...

Flying a B-17 was a very risky job since they were huge, slow and therefore easy targets for enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft defences, who always marked them as primary targets. Out of the entire ...

Kowalewski said it feels a bit surreal to have established a connection with a person who died 20 years before he was born.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Wednesday that 20-year-old U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sergeant Hubert Yeary ...

[Andrew] and his brother had some time (and a lot of ping pong balls) on their hands, so they decided to have some fun and built a remote-controlled ping pong ball turret. Arduino aside ...

A native of Clay Center who died overseas decades ago has finally completed his return journey. The Defense POW/MIA ...

They were tail and ball turret gunners assigned to fly in B-17s, the big four engine bombers that the Americans believed were superior to anything else their allies or the enemy had. Inspired by ...