Oscar Masters, a 101-year-old Jefferson County veteran, shared his firsthand account of training for the atomic bomb missions ...
WENDOVER — At the Historic Wendover Airfield, the silence can feel heavy. It's almost as if you can sense them. "We feel that connection to those individuals who trained here," said Landon Wilkey, who ...
In 1931, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria and set up a puppet state. Then in November 1936 Japan signed an anti-Communist pact with Nazi Germany, and Japan invaded China in July 1937 ...
During the height of World War II, when thousands of troops were learning intelligence craft at Camp Ritchie in central Maryland, a much smaller corps of several hundred was being trained for ...
During World War II, the United States undertook one of the most ambitious aviation infrastructure expansions in history, constructing hundreds of airfields across the country to train pilots, stage ...
WENDOVER, Utah — At the historic Wendover Airfield, a once bustling hub of World War II military training, a new effort is underway to ensure that thousands of fallen aviators are finally honored. The ...
Taber Woodrum and Amy Wilda, from Oregon, walk Wednesday under the wing of a 1944 World War II-era Mitchell medium bombardier training plane, a B-25 dubbed “Sweet Dreams,” on display in the Rowland ...
LEWISTOWN, Ill. (AP) -- A sprawling site in rural Fulton County where 45,000 people once lived is now deserted and silent. The 17,500 acres that once were home to Camp Ellis, a World War II-era Army ...
The site of a fallen World War II soldier's plane has been identified 80 years later. At the time of the crash, Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, named “Lucky Boy,” ...