The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt entered World War II as an object of ridicule, dismissed by German pilots as slow, heavy, and ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

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

One of Germany’s most famous fighter aces, Adolf Galland, realized World War II was already slipping away months before D-Day ...

It might come as a shock how many World War II fighter planes seem to get pulled out of the woods. Every few years or so, a group of hikers, contractors, or prospectors happens upon old warbirds of ...

The USAF remains the world's largest, but its number of crewed aircraft is shrinking as the PLAAF grows in numbers. Its UAV fleet is on the up though.

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

Though Europe has a long military history in Asia, it is quite rare for an Asian nation to send ships or aircraft to Europe, as Japan did earlier this year.

The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2013. When my book group elected to read “A Higher Call,” about a World War II encounter in the ...

This tale reminds me again that current news, trendy topics and fresh anecdotes aren’t always more interesting, informative ...

Almost 1,000 African Americans trained at the Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Nearly half were sent overseas for combat duty in WW II.

The Porsche and Ferrari logos both feature a very similar horse. As it turns out, those horses might very well be the same ...