Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

The museum is home to some novel aircraft in aviation history, including a Stinson Voyager 150, a 1929 Travelair 6000, a 1931 DeHavilland Gipsy DH Moth and a Grumman Avenger TBM. Komberec said ...

The opening of the air war over the Pacific was brutal. Allied pilots found themselves facing an enemy whose fighters ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

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 ...

Relatives of a World War II hero who thought their family member was "just a cook" were stunned to discover he was part of a secretive unit. Captain Leslie Scott's collection of Special Allied ...

"In combat, they would just charge forward from the tree line, like in a World War II movie," Ihorovych recalled. Assaults during World War II often had high casualty rates. He said his troops ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. When you purchase through links on our site ...