In August of 1945, B-29s dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending WWII in the Pacific theatre.

The famous WWII-era B-29 Superfortress bomber is the only aircraft to ever drop nuclear weapons in combat, as it was the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aircraft was ...

Nearly two years before the attack on Pearl Harbour brought the United States into the Second World War, the US Army Air Corps asked American aircraft manufacturers to design a bomber that could fly 3 ...

Consolidated's bomber, the B-32 Dominator, was the final heavy strategic bomber to enter the U.S. Army Air Forces' service.

Warren Morris recalls the events of more than 67 years ago as the best experiences of his young life. Morris, a Tulsa lawyer and real estate appraiser who will turn 89 in October, looked across the ...

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 ...

August 1945. News broke the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Also making national news that day was the story of Tech. Sgt. Kurt Joachim Hermann II, a 26-year-old from ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - On Saturday, veterans from the Second World War took to the skies in a vintage plane, honoring their service in the war. This comes just weeks away from the 80th anniversary ...

SALEM, Ore. — In Salem, a group of volunteers are on a years-long mission to restore a B-17 bomber that long sat on top of a Milwaukie gas station. "Everybody knew where the bomber was," Terry Scott, ...