First Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson was one of 11 men on the B-24 shot down off New Guinea. The remains of the pilot of a downed World War II Army bomber that was the subject of a pioneering recovery ...
The loss of the bomber represented another blow to an already dwindling B-1 fleet, which now numbers 44. The B-1, a conventional bomber that is not nuclear-capable, was flown extremely hard during ...
The B-24 bomber he flew -- nicknamed “Heaven Can Wait” — was downed by Japanese antiaircraft fire on March 11, 1944. The wreckage burned on the surface and sank in about 200 feet of water.