The appearance of the bombers in mass was the turning point in the aerial warfare of World War II. The era of sportsmanlike, ...

When war broke out in September 1939, none of the combatants were prepared to fight in the way that they wanted. The British lacked the heavy bombers that interwar doctrine suggested that would be ...

When war broke out in September 1939, none of the combatants were prepared to fight in the way that they wanted. The British lacked the heavy bombers that interwar doctrine suggested that would be ...

In 1941, HMS Victorious, an imposing, Illustrious-class aircraft carrier, joined the hunt for the notorious German battleship ...

The Arado Ar 234 was an aesthetically graceful and powerful German aircraft that became the world's first operational jet and ...

Julia Maruca Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 7:52 p.m. | Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 7:52 p.m. Among the trees of a national forest park near Frankfurt, Germany, survey lines, pin flags and neatly aligned squares ...

Every country that participated in the World War II air war had more than a few types of airplanes, but their design schemes could be distinguished throughout the conflict. The Americans liked to ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

Jeff Himler Thursday, April 20, 2023 5:01 a.m. | Thursday, April 20, 2023 5:01 a.m. Joel Eugene Paulson, known as Pete to his friends in the Greensburg High School Class of 1942, wanted to be a forest ...

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment of colors, from shades of gray to olive drab, blue, and camouflage patterns. British planes were painted Dark Earth, Dark Green, and Night — a ...

Off the southern tip of Sicily, divers discovered the remains of a WWII plane and were able to reconstruct its mission. Screengrab from the Soprintendenza Del Mare's Facebook post On March 2, 1943, a ...