WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an ...

In the final days of World War II, the last bomber shot down over Germany was a B-24 Liberator from the 466th Bomb Group.

IKACHI, Japan — A plaque unveiled recently in this rural town near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni commemorates the nine-member crew of the Lonesome Lady, a B-24 Liberator that crashed on July 28, ...

The airmen will be buried with Honors 65 years after being lost in New Guinea. April 27, 2008 — -- It's been 65 years since "The Swan," a B-24 bomber, crashed in New Guinea while returning to ...

Steele is traveling the country aiming to visit the gravesites of all the lost crew members, and recently came to Elmira to meet Rubin family members at Malcolm Rubin's gravesite. After more than 80 ...

CHICAGO — First Lt. Edward T. McGuire, a graduate of the Mount Carmel High School class of 1939, died Aug. 1, 1943, at the age of 22 when his B-24 Liberator bomber went down near Ploiesti, Romania, ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...