In the bitter winters of 1944–1945, the Scandinavian volunteers of the Waffan SS faced the relentless Soviet onslaught at ...
AeroTime looks back at the World War II Allied ace pilots from the US, UK, France and Soviet Union who became legends of the ...
"Lucky" was just a wide-eyed 21-year-old lieutenant when he manned the B-17 controls and took to the sky for his first ...
On January 1st, 1945, the Allied Air Forces welcomed the New Year with an unexpected, low-level attack from the Luftwaffe. Named Operation Baseplate, or Operation Bodenplatte, the German attack ...
The Luftwaffe was also decimated ... from the successful invasion of Sicily and Italy later that summer to the cross-Channel ...
The World War II veteran survived 25 perilous B-17 missions over Nazi Germany and later became a voice for remembering the ...
Decades after WWII, Marcel and Gloria finally found Elli, the Jewish child hidden from the Nazis by Marcel's parents 80 years ...
The first RAF Auxiliary Air Force squadron  to be formed — and the unit credited with bringing down the first German bomber ...
From here, they facilitated the export of nickel from nearby deposits and carried out attacks against Arctic convoys delivering Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR," Medvedev said. "Do the British, who ...
A century after its formation, Scotland's legendary 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron is marking 100 years of service with a ...