After scoring high marks on an aptitude test at Fort Niagara's induction center in Youngstown, Edward M. Kolek said he was talked into joining the Army's Aviation Cadet Corps. He breezed through pilot ...

Jo Spencer was 13 months old in 1955 when her father died a few feet from her, on the floor near her crib in Middletown, Ohio. That shell of a man, Christopher Norman Holweger, was just 34. Twelve ...

One of the most heroic air raids occurred 75 years ago during World War II on Aug. 1, 1943. On that date, 178 B-24 Liberators from five Army Air Forces bomber groups near Benghazi, Libya, conducted a ...

In August 1943, the US launched an audacious raid on one of Nazi Germany's most valuable resources. Nearly 200 B-24 bombers carried out a low-level attack on oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania. 79 ...