As many readers will know, the Vintage Aviation Museum is a 501c3 non-profit organization which has been involved with the restoration of Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress 41-2595 for some years now. Mike Kellner aquired the butchered remains of […]
Movie “Memphis Belle” Flying-High, Again by Austin Hancock As most readers will know, the famous, combat-veteran Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress known as Memphis Belle (Serial 41-24485) is undergoing restoration to static-display status at the National Museum […]
Most of us with a keen sense of aviation history have wondered what it was like to fly and fight aboard a WWII heavy bomber. We’ve seen wartime footage, and classic war movies like Twelve […]
WarbirdsNews has recently received some fascinating wartime accounts written up by a former B-17 radio operator named Tom Creekmore. We thought our readers would enjoy reading them and decided we would start first with this dramatic story […]
The Battle of Midway, fought between June 4th and 7th, 1942, was arguably the turning point in the fight against Japan during WWII. To mark the 72nd anniversary of this seminal naval battle, the Pacific […]
SAVE A PIECE OF HISTORY The Yankee Air Museum and the Michigan Aerospace Foundation are partnering with Ypsilanti Township, the RACER Trust and Wayne County Airport Authority to create a new campus home for the […]
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