Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A plane that saw service during the Korean War era will land at Yellowstone International Airport ...

The last flying PB4Y-2 Privateer -- the Navy's version of the U.S. Army Air Corp's World War II-era B-24 Liberator heavy bomber -- is in the Coachella Valley for a week-long layover at the Palm ...

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a PB4Y-1 is shown circa 1944. (U.S. Navy) Of the many aircraft in which ...

1940s PB4Y-1 and BQ-7 (USA) The ongoing threat of the German V-1 during World War II prompted the U.S. Navy to develop UAVs that could destroy V-1 launch sites. In 1944, the Navy's Special Air Unit ...

PALM SPRINGS – A World War II-era U.S. Navy patrol bomber — a modified version of the U.S. Army Air Corps' B-24 Liberator heavy bomber — flew in to Palm Springs on Sunday for a weeklong visit to the ...

In the years of Cold War, the usual crossroads of the International spying was the Baltic Sea, a narrow part of sea overlooking the Soviet Union, DDR and Poland for Warsaw’s Pact side, West Germany, ...

The planes, known respectively as the PB4Y-1 AND BQ-7, took off with a two-man crew, who would fly the plane to 2,000 feet and set a course for V-1 launch sites in France before bailing out. Though ...