American observation planes were never designed to attack armor. Yet in the later stages of World War II, some were armed with rockets and bazookas to strike German tanks from above. This video ...

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One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt entered World War II as an object of ridicule, dismissed by German pilots as slow, heavy, and ...

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This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

At 102, retired Air Force Capt. Dick Nelms, who flew 35 missions over Nazi Germany in a Boeing B-17, shares his WWII ...

Russia has lost around 1.2 million soldiers during the Ukraine War—a number that pales in comparison to its losses during the ...

IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing in 2003. The handwritten letter was inside the cover of a ...

One of the longest surviving World War Two veterans in Guernsey has died at the age of 104. John Barnes was born in London ...

At Davos, Trump made bold claims about Greenland, NATO spending and China’s wind power. DW Fact Check examines where his statements clash with historical records and current data.