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

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

During World War II, Allied forces faced a brutal reality: anti-aircraft guns could fire thousands of shells and still fail ...

The Supermarine Spitfire helped decide the Battle of Britain despite having no electronics, minimal ammunition, and no ...

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

On Jan. 21, 1945, San Diego newspapers reported a wide range of wartime activities as World War II neared its final months.

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.

A Wilmington native who died while being held as a prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II has been positively identified through analysis of his remains, U.S. military officials said this ...

There are incidents of Commonwealth airmen being captured after taking off from Malta, such as the case of a Vickers Wellington bomber from No. 458 Squadron RAA (Royal Australian Air Force) the crew ...

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 ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

A focus on certain types of power foods helped the nation survive a blockade. A British shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a homemaker's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon during ...