Long before audiences came to know James Doohan as the warm, witty miracle worker of the Star Trek engine room, he was a young Canadian officer facing something far more real than sci-fi. To ...

The US deployed its forces to defend Greenland, a Danish territory, during World War 2. This has been stated ad nauseam by ...

Adam Estes examines the legacy of the Battle of Midway through the story of "Midway Madness," the last surviving Douglas SBD ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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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