Key Points - The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, a key Allied heavy bomber in World War II, was the most produced combat aircraft in history (18,482 built). -Making its maiden flight in 1939, the B-24 ...

After pulling out of a 500-miles-an-hour nosedive, the veteran pilot, Jerry Neal, said he suddenly saw a rock bar on the ...

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

This article was previously published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of “Stars and Stripes.” Several summers ago I was relaxing on our back porch in central Pennsylvania. I heard a very familiar rumble ...

FORT THOMAS, Ky. (WKRC) - For more than 70 years, the family of Army First Lt. Joseph De Jarnette didn't know much about what exactly happened to him. It started on April 8, 1944, when the pilot and ...

Herbert G. Tennyson was a 24-year-old first lieutenant in the U.S. Army when he was killed during World War II. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency In the spring of 1944, Herbert G. Tennyson was ...

At age 89, Lincoln resident Chris Christensen sat down behind the steering yoke of a B-24 bomber on Tuesday for the first time since he flew one through hostile skies over Europe in World War II. “It ...

Witness a complete WWII strategic bombing mission over Germany, from the initial briefing to the perilous return, in this ...