Often derided by their enemies and patronised by their major ally, the armed forces of Italy during the second world war have ...

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Germany's ruling coalition has passed a test of unity after voting on a pension reform bill. Earlier, lawmakers approved a controversial government plan to boost the country's military. DW has more.

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

The largest air disaster until World War II took place off the East Coast of the United States in 1933, and it did not ...

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 ...

2nd Lt Moseley assumed the name Louis René Meslin and, over the following weeks, got to know Papa and Mama, as he called the ...

Whether they take you to the danger zone or send you back in time to World War I (or WWII), these airplane battle scenes are ...

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 ...