VAN NUYS – Retired pilots Lt. John Bockhorst and Lt. Col. Henry “Hank” Cervantes scanned the horizon as the B-17 Flying Fortress banked west. There were no puffs of enemy flak. No fighters at 12 ...

As the Ploiești raid begins, dense clouds and the loss of the lead navigator throw American bomber groups into chaos, separating formations and exposing them to heavy enemy flak and fighter attacks.

The hottest fighting in Korea nowadays is the battle of U.N. planes against Red antiaircraft guns. The U.S. Fifth Air Force had some grim announcements last week: in fighter-bombers (56 Thunder jets ...

Michael R. Carestio wanted to leave his job as a tool-and-die maker at the former Wales Strippit plant on Niagara Street in Buffalo to get off the ground in World War II. He soon made progress and was ...