The U.S. Air Force unit and its deadly missions in World War II are also the subject of a new Apple TV+ documentary.

Missions flown: 6,945 of the 10,802 (64.29 percent) missions flown by the Eighth Air Force. The B-17 “Flying Fortress” earned a great deal of aviation fame with its durability and consistent ...

A tour of Eighth Air Force history wouldn't be complete without a visit to Duxford, which has an operational control tower and Sally B, a still-flying B-17. Alamy An American seeking the ghosts of ...

On Saturday, the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force hosted an event to document and preserve recordings of ...

Museum highlights include a fully restored B-17 “Flying Fortress” and the ... The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is located at 175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler, GA.

The chef at Eighth Air Force headquarters – who had been chef at the Brown Derby in Hollywood pre-war and a gunner on a B-17 in 1942-43 – did an oral history in the 1990s in which he talked about the ...