The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, features around 350 planes and missiles in its collection, but there's one aircraft in the World War II Gallery that attracts a particularly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle famously led the first U.S. strike against the Japanese homeland during World War II, and ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...

One by one, participants solemnly rang a ceremonial gong at the Dayton International Peace Museum Tuesday night as they commemorated the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Sixty-nine years ago come Saturday, Bill Barney, who was just a 21-year-old farm boy from Indiana, helped make history. As a radar operator on a B-29 nicknamed The Great Artiste, he and other crew ...

This column was originally published on Aug. 5, 2018. When the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, it was the end result of work done in Central Washington, as ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Frederick L. "Dick" Ashworth, the weaponeer in charge of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II, is dead at 93. He died Saturday during heart surgery ...