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US Veterans Excavate The Wreckage Of A B-24 Liberator In Sussex

U.S. Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24D Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group flying in formation, circa in 1943.

A team has gathered in Sussex, England, to recover the bodies of two airmen who were lost in a violent crash in the British countryside…

A Pearl Harbor Witness and World War II Veteran Was Scammed Out of His Life Savings

Shameless scammers stole the life savings of an Arizona Navy veteran who witness and survived the Japanese attacks at Pearl Harbor. He also bravely fought…

Remains of U.S. Servicemen Returned Home from India

U.S. military members held a ceremony April 13 to pay final respects to what they believe are the remains of a U.S. airman or airmen…

U.S. Finally Given Permission to Bring Home Remains of Soldiers in Himalayas

A recent effort from the U.S. Defense Prisoners of War Accounting Agency has resulted in the finding of more American remains.  The group that made…

Memphis Belle Was Not The First Bomber To Complete 25 Missions

Memphis Belle

B-17 “Sally B” was used in the movie Memphis Belle to look like the Famous B-17 and was used for scenes requiring pyrotechnics such as smoke…

World War Two B-24 crash site plaque stolen

The plaque before it was stolen. A plaque that was placed at the site of a war time plane crash in Kansas City has been stolen.…

Memphis Belle Was Not The First Bomber To Complete 25 missions

Memphis Belle

B-17 “Sally B” was used in the movie Memphis Belle to look like the Famous B-17 and was used for scenes requiring pyrotechnics such as smoke…

Post-World War Two vintage flying experiences offered

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vintage flying experiences

The Douglas DC-3 aircraft is the epitome of 1940s glamour travel. Not long after World War Two had ended the DC-3 offered large cabin space,…

Pacific War B-24 Liberator pilot remembers World War Two experience

Ian Harvey

Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Fitzhenry who flew a B-24 Liberator in the 72nd Bomb Squadron during World War Two’s Pacific War has told his recollection of…

Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken Finally Adapted into Film

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Unbroken

The best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, is to be made into a film after nearly sixty years of consideration. The book tells the story…

A Lost Diary: Stories Of A WWII ‘Suicide Mission’

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Diary

In the lost and found diary, Capt. Jack Stanley Jones wrote about a medal presentation he had to wake up early for and complained about…