100-year-old World War II veteran celebrates with Team Hanscom

Base officials welcomed a local 100-year-old veteran here today to acknowledge his military service as a navigator in the B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II.

Accounting for and honoring Twentieth’s fallen Airmen

Among more than 100 missing individuals accounted for in 2023, the DPAA identified the remains of three WWII B-29 crew members who died when their assigned aircraft crashed in India on June 26, 1944.

WWII airpower legend receives honorary promotion to Colonel

At 100 years old, World War II and Korean War airpower legend U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James H. Harvey III., one of the nation’s first African American fighter pilots with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, received an honorary promotion to the rank of colonel.

The 509th Bomb Wing honors the service, sacrifice, valor of the original 509th Composite Group

Members of the 509th Bomb Wing attended a heritage event at Wendover Army Air Field, to honor the service, sacrifice and valor of the Airmen of the original 509th Composite Group.The 509th CG was stood up in 1944, at Wendover Airfield, as the weapons delivery section under the Manhattan project. Led

Tuskegee Airman, Air Force legend passes away at 102

Brig. Gen. Charles E. McGee, a Tuskegee Airman and Air Force legend, passed away at his residence in Bethesda, Md., Jan. 16, 2022. He was 102 years old.

Wesselhoeft survives WWII U.S. bombing, later joins unit

Lt Col Dick Cole, last surviving Doolittle Raider, passes away at age 103

A legendary chapter in Air Force history has come to a close. Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole, the last survivor of the “Doolittle Raid,” died April 9, in San Antonio.

WWII, POW survivor shares tale of hope, determination, resilience

The four pillars of resiliency -- physical, mental, spiritual and social -- are drilled into the minds of Airmen today to emphasize how important it is that no matter what life situation they are going through, there is always a healthy way to handle the situation.

Montana's last Doolittle Raider honored

Seventy-four years after the historic Doolittle Tokyo Raid, Staff Sgt. David J. Thatcher, one of two remaining Doolittle Raiders, was laid to rest at the age of 94 on June 27, 2016, in Missoula, Montana.