The National Interest on MSN6d
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 MSN13d
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 Post11d
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 News10d
How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
The U.S. bombers sank ... Units in World War II” by Ikuhiko Hata and Yasuho Izawa; “The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway” by John B. Lundstrom; “Duel ...
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 ...
Mansfield News Journal13d
WWII soldier from Cleveland identified 80 years after crash
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum, 22, killed when his bomber crashed during World War II, were recently identified.
Rolling Stone10d
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 ...