BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

The RAF withdrew the Defiant from frontline duty due to the warbird’s limited endurance. When one thinks of gun turrets on ...

Now Leo McKinstry, journalist turned historian, takes to the crowded skies of Spitfire studies with a massive book that deserves to be the last word on the subject. His book is not just another ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

The Type seven and Type nine were the striking force of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic - a German attempt to cut off the British Isles and force the Allies to surrender. In the ...

The 117-foot long Philippine Mars flew is one of two of its kind still in existence, anchored in Alameda overnight.

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says ending the war means security guarantees Says talks ... the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...

US President Donald Trump has revealed that he has already had one or more phone conversations about ending Moscow's war in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who, according to ...