The RAF withdrew the Defiant from frontline duty due to the warbird’s limited endurance. When one thinks of gun turrets on ...

On New Year’s Day 1943, Flight Lieutenant Dave Ritchie found himself in a deadly aerial battle, taking down an enemy aircraft before being forced into a brutal crash landing. This was just one of many ...

Harold Pressel received a Purple Heart during a ceremony in late January at the Dallastown American Legion Hall, 80 years after a doomed bombing run ...

The Royal Australian Air Force's 458 Squadron was formed at Williamtown, New South Wales, and served in Europe, the Middle East and Mediterranean Sea. Photo shows A silver WWII fighter plane with ...

The Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber was the most extensively manufactured American aircraft during WWII. The British bestowed the “Liberator” name upon it after its crucial ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

MILLVILLE, New Jersey -- The history of World War II in South Jersey and beyond is captured through the planes, uniforms, and other military artifacts at the Millville Army Air Field Museum.

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members, civilians and crew aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester sailed through the North Atlantic for Greenland.

Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were Shostak’s. He was finally, as the news release from the Defense POW/MIA ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands' largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...