American observation planes were never designed to attack armor. Yet in the later stages of World War II, some were armed ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

In the summer of 1943, behind a guarded circus tent at Lockheed’s Burbank factory, a handpicked team led by Kelly Johnson raced against time to build a jet fighter the public was never meant to see.

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

The greatest anti-tank planes of World War 2 ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Aviation and history buffs and their families, will enjoy a visit to the retired U.S. aircraft carrier Midway in San Diego, with its 29 historic aircraft and more.

At Davos, Trump made bold claims about Greenland, NATO spending and China’s wind power. DW Fact Check examines where his statements clash with historical records and current data.

At 102, retired Air Force Capt. Dick Nelms, who flew 35 missions over Nazi Germany in a Boeing B-17, shares his WWII ...

Russia has lost around 1.2 million soldiers during the Ukraine War—a number that pales in comparison to its losses during the ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...