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 ...

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 ...

By the time of the Second World War, a nation could not guarantee its survival without air power. Bombers pummelled cities, ...

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

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

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

The U.K. and Germany will dispatch P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) in the coming months for a joint surveillance mission to track Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, officials ...

Allied ingenuity produced a number of great fighter aircraft that would prove instrumental in their victory in World War 2 The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning were each capable ...

The handover ceremony took place at the American Boeing plant in Seattle. In total, Germany has ordered eight such aircraft. They are designed to enhance the intelligence capabilities of the German ...

“As I am now, so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.” —Tombstone inscription of Thomas Roberts, died March 6, 1818, Black Swamp–area cemetery, southern Hampton County. This column, and ...

During World War II, allied pilots were among the most fearless and revered figures from the six-year conflict that consumed over 75% of the global population. The early stages of the war saw the ...