American observation planes were never designed to attack armor. Yet in the later stages of World War II, some were armed ...

Explore the heartbreaking story of Fletcher Adams, an 18-year-old American fighter pilot in WWII who rose to prominence in the skies over Europe, downing multiple German aircraft and becoming a rising ...

The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.

In the spring of 1941, as Europe burned, a secret agreement turned the world’s largest island into a frontline of[...] ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland to ...

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

During the height of World War II, Germany built an unprecedented network of research and production across Europe. Economic ...

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

TAIPEI—China’s steadily expanding military forces conducted large-scale drills around Taiwan this week, dispatching jet fighters, naval ships and coast guard vessels to encircle the island and firing ...

The Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II is widely thought to be one of the most advanced fighter jets currently in existence. Across its three main variants — the F-35A, the F-35B, and the F-35C (U.S ...

Poland scrambled fighter jets Thursday after detecting a Russian reconnaissance aircraft operating near its airspace, authorities said. Poland’s Operational Command wrote on X that the aircraft was ...