In 1943, B-17 tail gunner Eugene Moran plummeted towards Earth in the severed tail section of his bomber after a Luftwaffe attack over Bremen. With a bullet-riddled parachute, his fate seemed sealed.

One of the last surviving bomber crew members of the B-17 Flying Fortress sits down to recount some of the terrifying moments that defined his crew's remarkable 35 mission run to return home ...

GOTHENBURG — Like many a veteran of many a war, Charles Stuart Bachmann long kept his memories of his World War II combat to himself. Only in recent years, family members say, has the 93-year-old ...

His first mission was so frantic, Jim Harper says he wanted to become a cook. He can joke about it now. But not then, as the tail-gunner aboard a B-17 bomber over Europe. "We were attacked by 250 ...

Apr. 15—On April 25, Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum will hosts its third World War II History roundtable presentation, in which the wartime experiences of Ray Perry — former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...

Francis L. Heimiller, a World War II veteran and prisoner of war, died July 14 in Boulder City, Nev., after a brief illness. He was 88.

OMAHA, Neb. — Gail Farrell, in a wheelchair thanks to a bum leg, bowed his head as the colonel pinned the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters on his breast pocket. He might have shed a tear, but he ...

MISSOULA — He’s 97 and sharp as a tack, and the man who’s thought to be the oldest living fighter ace in the nation had a rapt audience Monday on the University of Montana campus. But Frank McCauley ...