A fleet of Second World War aircraft will take to the skies of Guernsey to celebrate the 80th Liberation Day. Included in the programme is Ready for Duty (R4D), an aircraft operated by the ...

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...

There were few World War 2 fighters that could match the speed and firepower of America’s premier warbirds. The Republic P-47 ...

Kate Orchard: rose to the rank of Warrant Officer First Class – rarely achieved by women in an operational role, either in India or the UK - Anthony Upton ​Kate Orchard, who has died ...

Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and strike capabilities. Not wanting to be viewed as the ‘sick man’ of the Axis ...

A doodlebug brought down by British troops during the Second World War is being excavated after more than eight decades.

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

A new monument honouring a US pilot who died in a crash during World War Two has been unveiled near Howwood in Renfrewshire.

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