This article was previously published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of “Stars and Stripes.” Several summers ago I was relaxing on our back porch in central Pennsylvania. I heard a very familiar rumble ...

Frances Masters, 103, will be honored with a bronze statue at Royal Oak Memorial Park this Veterans Day for her WWII service ...

In the final days of World War II, the last bomber shot down over Germany was a B-24 Liberator from the 466th Bomb Group.

This is the story of B-24 Liberator "Extra Joker" and how she became a photo of death. Extra joker was a part of the 451st ...

IKACHI, Japan — A plaque unveiled recently in this rural town near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni commemorates the nine-member crew of the Lonesome Lady, a B-24 Liberator that crashed on July 28, ...

The airmen will be buried with Honors 65 years after being lost in New Guinea. April 27, 2008 — -- It's been 65 years since "The Swan," a B-24 bomber, crashed in New Guinea while returning to ...

SEATTLE — Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began. “Sentimental Journey,” a ...

In the beginning -- Dr. Vince Splane -- Arthur H. Millard -- Kent Zimmerman and Stephen M. Perrone -- Tom Bonney -- Roland T. Fisher -- Trevor Bevan -- Frank C. Kotouch, Sr. -- Edward G. Harris -- ...

CHICAGO — First Lt. Edward T. McGuire, a graduate of the Mount Carmel High School class of 1939, died Aug. 1, 1943, at the age of 22 when his B-24 Liberator bomber went down near Ploiesti, Romania, ...