The mystery of a lost World War II B-17 bomber is edging closer to resolution, as a fresh clue from the seafloor reshapes what investigators thought they knew about the aircraft’s final moments. After ...

For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the ...

In the final days of 1943, a damaged American B-17 struggled to stay in the air — its crew wounded, its engines failing. Then, out of the clouds, a German fighter appeared. What happened next became ...

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

A U.S. Air Force B-17 'Flying Fortress' bomber flies through the sky. A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently working ...

Photographer Dan Patterson recalls his extraordinary 1990 flight aboard a B-17 bomber from the film "Memphis Belle" — and the moment the pilot let him take the controls.

Boeing's Plant No. 2 in Seattle was the primary production site for the B-17 Flying Fortress, manufacturing 6,981 aircraft. During World War II, the factory was famously camouflaged with an elaborate ...