The spirals on the noses of German fighter planes in World War II weren't a fashion statement. They had some very practical ...

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 on ...

Step into the cockpit of a Bf 109 during a critical mission to intercept B-25 bombers over Europe. This simulation portrays ...

Helicopters made a big difference in World War II, but some have gone unnoticed. Here are the five that should be recognized ...

A Greek-speaking British spy carried out solo espionage missions during WWII, inspiring Ian Fleming’s James Bond character.

82 years ago today, on 19 April 1943, fighters from ... the first uprising in German Nazi-occupied Europe and the largest act of armed resistance by Jews in World War II. It is estimated that ...

Germany on Thursday slammed Russia's "lies" over its invasion of Ukraine, while French leader Emmanuel Macron warned that the ...

PAP/Marcin Obara A range of ceremonies are scheduled for the day to mark 82 years since the outbreak of the World War II-era revolt, in which Jewish fighters took up arms against Poland’s German ...

Maj. Gen. Raymond Shields, the adjutant general of New York, welcomed a French diplomat to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...

Unshackling it from the fighter planes it usually adorns, the MG 81 machine gun can now be lugged around by German infantry. To improve the Japanese army's ability to neutralize tanks, the German ...

One of the unique examples of such cooperation was the establishment of the Alaska–Siberia Air Route (ALSIB), on which ...