The 101st Gruppo (Squadron), reactivated after a period in “quadro” (dormant) status, will operate the STOVL variant of the ...

More than 20,000 residents evacuated a German city after three U.S. WWII bombs were discovered in Cologne, requiring hours of careful diffusion work before people could return to their homes.

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force has commemorated Memorial Day all weekend long with its annual “Flags for the Fallen” tribute. Since Friday, 26,000 flags have ...

The chief of the German Air Force was in Israel this weekend to officially procure components for the Israeli-manufactured Arrow 3 air defense system. Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz visited ...

The characteristic low growl of a German V-1 missile terrified people across England and Belgium. Here's what made their sound so unsettling.

When WW2 began, the Western Front initially saw little ground combat. But there was plenty of action in the air. On 08 September 1939, six H 75 Hawks of the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) were ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure ...

When World War II broke out in September 1939, it swiftly became a total war. The practice of using nose art to build camaraderie and esprit de corps roared back into vogue as aerial combat took ...

James McCubbin, 103, is under consideration for recognition as a WWII ace for shooting down enemy aircraft in his P-51 Mustang.

The Heligoland Bight is an area near the German ports of Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven. The Air Ministry decided to launch an attack on German ships there to prevent them from supporting U-boats ...

The aircraft is dedicated to U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Donald Strait, a retired commander of the New Jersey Air National Guard (NJANG), who flew a P-47 Thunderbolt and a P-51 Mustang of the same name.

Baskind was reported missing. After the war, however, German documents revealed that Baskind had been captured and later died at a German Air Force hospital.