Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.

The B-24 bomber he flew -- nicknamed “Heaven Can Wait” — was downed by Japanese antiaircraft fire on March 11, 1944. The wreckage burned on the surface and sank in about 200 feet of water.

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An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years after his bomber — dubbed "Heaven ... Recover located the wreckage of a B-24 aircraft in Hansa Bay while making sonar ...

reportedly over Estonia on Feb. 24. A US Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range strategic bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew just 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the Russian ...

On 24 February, the Finnish Air Force trained together with a 🇺🇸 B-52 Stratofortress bomber and 🇳🇱 F-35s in Estonian airspace. The training session was concluded with a flyover above ...

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The B-1B bomber, also known as Lancer, has the largest payload of conventional weapons in the U.S. Air Force inventory, carrying up to 75,000 pounds of bombs and missiles. It has an ...

South Korea, U.S. stage air exercise as North-Russia concerns grow South Korea, U.S. stage joint air drills with stealth fighters South Korea, U.S., Japan conduct joint aerial exercise with B-52 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by the South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber, top second from left ...

South Korea and the United States conducted joint air drills, involving at least one US B-1B bomber, over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday. South Korea's defense ministry said South Korean and US ...

performed a 24-hour flight through Europe and the Middle East, joining with allied aircraft along the way. A total of four B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers are now detached on the Bomber ...