Albert Corbin Warford Jr’s family moved to Quincy in the 1920s. Albert, better known as A. C. or “Ace”, born February 9, 1916 ...

The oldest B-17G still in service with the 91st Bomb Group and the next to last B-17 lost to hostile action by the group met a horrifying fate in the skies over Germany on April 8, 1945, just 30 days ...

A U.S. Army Air Forces staff sergeant was laid to rest Monday in North Carolina, eight decades after he went missing when his bomber was shot down over France during World War II. Robert Ferris Jr., ...

Built from 1936 to 1945, about 45 intact Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress remain. Today, less than 10 are estimated to still be airworthy. There were 12,731 B-17s produced in total, of which 4,735 were ...

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...

DALLAS — Two things drew Dr. Rick Hecker to the Gulf Coast wing of the Commemorative Air Force: Family and a chance to fly history. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was coming out of a lengthy ...

Aug. 23—The painstaking restoration of the world's only B-17 "D" in a hangar on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Area B exemplifies the kind of work to which National Museum of the U.S. Air Force ...