Despite a temperature in the single digits, nearly 50 people came out Monday evening for the monthly meeting of the World War II Heritage Society, where the featured speaker, Dave Walker of Brookfield ...
In 1943, American bombers were failing to stop Japanese reinforcements in the Pacific. One man, Captain Paul “Pappy” Gunn, ...
One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...
Malcolm Rubin grew up in Elmira and, after studying at Cornell University, joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Rubin was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down in November 1944 over ...
Southwest Florida played a crucial role in preparing men for World War II, with more than 50,000 men training in the region. WINK News Navy veteran Richard Kolko and photographer McChesny Hughes ...
Some aircraft succeeded even though they made life harder for the people flying them. They demanded constant attention, ...