Few things capture the imagination quite like the survival stories of historic warbirds. Beyond their combat records and engineering marvels, it’s often the sheer improbability of their survival that ...

Maj. John “Lucky” Luckadoo, the last surviving B-17 pilot of the Eighth Air Force’s famed “Bloody Hundredth” Bombing Group, died in his home Sept. 1, his family announced. He was 103. “The Major left ...