This video highlights five extraordinary WWII aircraft and the personal stories behind their iconic nose art. From the P-47 ...

Filmed during an airshow display, this footage captures a P 38 Lightning flying alongside a P 51 Mustang. Both aircraft are ...

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

History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.

Bruce Eames recalls his first flight with Minot pilot Warren Pietsch in the P-51 Mustang “The Dakota Kid.” “I’ll never forget ...

John Gleeson co-founded the nonprofit Pacific Aviation Museum, now the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, and served as its ...

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

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.

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

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Louis E. Roemer was taken prisoner in the Philippines when the Japanese in May 1942 captured the island fortress of Corregidor, after American forces lost the Bataan Peninsula.

Japanese soldiers were beating a POW to the brink of death... that is until Richard Antrim stepped forward and offered to ...

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