Whether the German Luftwaffe could have won the Battle of Britain in 1940 has been a matter of debate almost from the time the first shot was fired. Now, a team of mathematicians at the University of ...

HE is one of Scotland’s unlikeliest wartime heroes. But Robert Watson-Watt is, by any definition, one of the most important figures of the 20 century. Mostly because without him it would be a very ...

A Junkers Ju-87 begins to roll in on a target in the Balkans during the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. The "little bomber" was considered outdated before WWII even began, but it wound up ...

Germany’s Luftwaffe could have won the Battle of Britain if they had attacked earlier and focused on bombing airfields, a new study has suggested. New simulations by York University researchers ...