John H. Luckadoo, the last surviving pilot from the storied 100th Bombardment Group, a war-battered unit of B-17 heavy bombers that flew missions deep over German-held territory during World War II, ...

Mann, who plays Lieutenant Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal, the most talented B-17 pilot in the WWII-set miniseries, also confirms one surprising real-life fact from the research ("the underwear thing is ...

ELSMERE, Delaware (WPVI) -- We want to wish a very special 100th birthday to a local hero. Raymond Firmani of Elsmere, Delaware, was a B-17 pilot in the 486th Heavy Bombardment Group in World War II, ...

In the annals of World War II aviation, few stories capture both the peril and the ingenuity of the air war over Europe as vividly as that of the 8th Air Force. His life was marked by courage, ...

DALLAS — John "Lucky" Luckadoo, of Dallas, the last surviving B-17 bomber pilot from the 100th Bomb Group during World War II, has died at the age of 103. Presbyterian Village North in Dallas, where ...

At approximately 11:45 a.m., March, 18, 1945, a Sunday, the bomb-laden B-17 of Myers and his crew lumbered away from a muddy English airfield on its way to the German capital. The aircraft joined the ...

It was a homecoming of sorts for Jack Hitt and Gerald Gentis. When the B-17 bomber rolled out onto the apron Friday at Jones Riverside Airport, it released a flood of memories for Hitt, 91, and Gentis ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress was a workhorse heavy bomber employed by the United States and one of the most legendary planes of World War II. The bomber entered service in the 1930s and continued ...