Bert O'Leary, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, shares the terror and drudgery of life as airman aboard a Vickers ...

The videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) – the female World War II pilots who were ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

DNA technology proved that Sebastopol’s Yuen Hop was one of three American airmen executed by the SS, then buried in an unmarked German grave in 1944.

Nazi tyranny has engulfed Europe, the western Soviet Union and North Africa. Against this backdrop, there seems to be only ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 and North American P-51 Mustang are two of the most infamous fighters of the Second World War.

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...

Harold "Bud" Pressel was awarded the Purple Heart he earned in 1944 when his bomber was shot down over Germany and he was ...

Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were ...

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...

The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...

Unexploded bombs are still routinely found during construction work in cities across Germany that were heavily bombed during ...