A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been ... was a gunner aboard a B-29 "Superfortress" aircraft.

“But it seemed very pretty to me.” A U.S. B-29 bomber was shot down over what was then Funaho village in present-day Inzai, located east of Tokyo, sometime between the evening of May ...

Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber was shot down over Tokyo in March 1945. Hodak, 23, was from Cambridge Springs, Pa., and a gunner aboard a B-29 Superfortress bomber when it was ...