DOD has put names to remains of three Army Air Forces airmen who were declared missing in action in 1944. The airmen are: 2nd Lt. David J. Nelson, Chicago; TSgt. Henry F. Kortebein, Maspeth, N.Y.; and TSgt. Blake A. Treece Jr., Marshall, Ark. The three were part of a nine-man B-17G crew flying out of England on Aug. 18, 1944, to bomb Nazi targets in Caen, France. Flak struck the bomber south of Caen, and witnesses saw it explode and crash. Officials ultimately identified remains of all but these three, until July 2004 when a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command team recovered remains from wreckage site found by a French aircraft wreckage-hunting group.
General Atomics, the maker of one of the Air Force’s first Collaborative Combat Aircraft, has ambitious plans for its family of semi-autonomous drones beyond the FQ-42, including a flying-wing aircraft capable of carrying out both reconnaissance and strike missions. Meanwhile, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced a new program to…