During the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ahead of Black History Month, a local World War II veteran and centenarian is reflecting on a century of life, service and ...

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

Adam Estes examines the legacy of the Battle of Midway through the story of "Midway Madness," the last surviving Douglas SBD Dauntless that flew in the pivotal WWII battle, now preserved at the ...

IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

For decades, the United States has relied on aircraft not just to fight wars, but to project power across the globe faster ...