The National Interest on MSN4d
The World War II B-24 Liberator Was So Good The U.S. Built Over 18,000
The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. T he Consolidated B-24 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN11d
Remains of Bomber Pilot Identified 80 Years After His Plane Went Down During World War II
Herbert G. Tennyson was a U.S. Army pilot on a B-24 nicknamed "Heaven Can Wait," which crashed into the ocean in early 1944 ...
Hays Post10d
Remains of WWII bomber pilot from Kansas identified
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announces that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, 24, of ...
Defense News7d
How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
At Sebring, an Old Air Base Tests the Limits of Endurance Racing
Ullman turned the runways, taxiways and access roads into a circuit, and the Sam Collier 6 Hour Memorial race took place on ...
Greek Reporter8d
Remains of US Airman Identified in WWII Aircraft Wreckage After 80 Years
After nearly 80 years, the remains of US airman Robert McCollum have been found and identified in the wreckage of a WWII bomber aircraft.
Rolling Stone8d
Pentagon Flags WWII Plane That Nuked Japan as Woke
the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. Thinking individuals will be unsurprised to learn that the Enola Gay was not actually named ...