The USAAF used the base to launch bomber operations against Nazi Germany. It was used by the 306th Bombardment Group (Heavy) which began landing their B-17 Fortress bombers at Thurleigh from September ...
The USAAF used the base to launch bomber operations against Nazi Germany. It was used by the 306th Bombardment Group (Heavy) which began landing their B-17 Fortress bombers at Thurleigh from ...
Located a few miles from the Cambridgeshire border is Thurleigh, a quiet village that became home to an RAF base in the Second World War. RAF Thurleigh, built in 1941, was used by the RAF before ...
The incomplete airfield reportedly received its first USAAF aircraft the very next day when a B-17F from Chelveston ... of the base as a USAAF heavy bomber station, a further 16 loop (sometimes ...
PENDLETON — After five months of construction, renovations are complete for Oregon’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Accelerator headquarters in Pendleton. The Oregon UAS Accelerator’s new office ...
We were young, gullible and innocent,” is how B-17 pilot Major John “Lucky” Luckadoo described himself and his World War II comrades during his remarks Jan. 16 at the Conversations With… program at ...
Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...
At least four B-1B bombers arrived in Guam last week amid tensions in the South China Sea, U.S. Air Force's photos showed.
The rescue team slashed through eight miles of marshy thicket on their way to the crash site. Two days before on Feb. 15, 1941, the USAAF B-18 Bolo bomber — ...
The BTF 25-1 deployment is in support of Pacific Air Forces’ training efforts with Allies, partners and joint forces as part ...
The team announced that the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base will fly over Arrowhead before the game.
The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation's first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII ...