Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

The PV-1 bomber, which also bore four guns, flew successful missions throughout the war. North American B-25 Mitchell One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one ...

It was a plan designed to fool Hitler's bombers - four pieces of land in north Staffordshire transformed to look like fake ...

In WW2, the British made destroying German dams ... To accomplish this, they needed a special plane to deliver the payload: the Lancaster Bomber. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing ...

Here, a remarkable piece of World War II history has come to light after more than 80 years ... and propeller from a Handley Page Hampden bomber, a two-engine aircraft used by the Royal Air ...

The bombers faced little resistance and around 20,000 civilians were killed. Six Lancasters were destroyed. The spitfire is the most famous plane of WW2. Its groundbreaking design and superior ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.

Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories in defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...