This article was previously published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of “Stars and Stripes.” Several summers ago I was relaxing on our back porch in central Pennsylvania. I heard a very familiar rumble ...

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, ...

This is the story of the B-24 Liberator Extra Joker, a bomber assigned to the 451st Bomb Group operating from Italy during World War II. In 1944, Extra Joker was shot down in combat, and the tragic ...

KEARNEY — When he left the South Pacific as a U.S. Army Air Forces co-pilot in 1946, Bernie Wimmer thought he’d never get to ride in a B-24 bomber again. It took a while, but he was wrong. Last week, ...

This propulsive account from journalist and historian Henderson (Bridge to the Sun) spotlights Allied aviators and spies who were part of a top-secret operation to disable and disrupt Nazi defenses ...

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.