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, ...

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

Some Fifth Circuit judges questioned the government’s claim that courts must defer to the president’s finding of an “invasion ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

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

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

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

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.

On Jan. 22, 1973, in its historic Roe vs. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans and made abortion legal.

IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing in 2003. The handwritten letter was inside the cover of a ...

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