The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress — or its computer-generated likeness — received plenty of screen time in the Apple TV+ series “Masters of the Air.” Inspiring the World War II series was the tumultuous ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At 22, 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano was the youngest bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps’ 306th Bomb Group when he was shot down by Nazi fighter pilots in Germany in 1944. Pedevillano ...

Elbert Wayne Scrivner was born near Russellville on June 30, 1917, and came up in an enterprising family that survived the Great Depression through thrift and learning to live within its limited means ...

In December 1942, a jeep carrying an ordnance technician, flanked by two armed guards, delivered a secret weapon to a B-17 bombardier. However, the process was far from simple. The special delivery ...

Howard Ewing Wyss was raised the last of five children on a small farm near Russellville in Moniteau County. Following his graduation from high school in nearby California in 1935, he spent the next ...

When I talked to Jim Bowler, of Rochester, on Thursday afternoon, he was preparing to ride in a B-17 airplane for the first time in 64 years. He was surprisingly calm for a guy whose last ride on a ...