The theaters of World War II were swarming with notable aircraft, but Germany really ... Moreover, it was the only German fighter to use a radial engine. It was a BMW 139 fourteen-cylinder ...

The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...

During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European ... on deep bombing runs into German territory. The P-51 had the ...

Today's Object of the Week is the remains of a Second World War propeller ... last German aircraft to crash on British soil. Ellen Morris reports. The remains of a Junkers JU88 Night Fighter ...

The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War ... and German commander Herman Goering confidently predicted victory would only take a few days. Britain stepped up the production of fighter ...

A man in Germany has found the crash site where an RAF airman from Oldham was killed during WWII– and now he's trying to find his relatives. Sgt Joe Hilton Halliwell, from Shaw, was just 22 years old ...

TOMASZ STACHURA/ BALTICTECH/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS A team of Polish divers say they have found almost intact the wreckage of German World War II steamer Karlsruhe, which was bombed by Soviet planes ...