Germany and the US built some of the largest aircraft in World War II, although many of their designs were unsuccessful.

In this video, German He-111 Bombers take heavy damage on a bombing run to hit an allied airfield. But RAF Spitfires as well ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...

The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil was the fastest propeller-driven aircraft of WWII, with a claimed top speed of 490 mph in level ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

In 1940, the United Kingdom endured constant German Luftwaffe raids. Aircraft and pilot losses stretched the country’s ...

The Boeing B-29's cockpit looks almost identical to the Millennium Falcon's. "Star Wars" even cited Boeing's planes as ...

Authorities unearthed an unexploded Second World War bomb in Klettenberg Park in Cologne and had to dispose of it immediately ...

Walter Steinmeier honoured Nazi war victims in Guernica on Friday, becoming the first German leader to visit the Spanish town ...