The spitfire is the most famous plane of WW2. Its groundbreaking design and superior specifications gave the British the critical edge.

He concluded that while there may have been some potential to appeal to “more extreme Scottish nationalists” with the “pro-German and anti-English” sentiments promoted on Radio Caledonia ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 20… ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — One of Charleston’s centenarians and world war 2 heroes passed away over the weekend. A husband, ...

From exploding tinned food to covert assaults and code-breaking schemes, Ian Fleming’s real-life wartime exploits were just ...

Polish Radio has marked 25 years since the death of Władysław Szpilman, the acclaimed pianist, composer and Holocaust ...

The early attempt at drones in World War II saw the Army Air Forces convert B-17 bombers into remote-controlled flying bombs.

In sharp contrast, audience reviews of the film were extremely positive and laudatory, with one viewer writing: “One of the ...

Eighty five years after he suddenly came out of the clouds over Worcester, the name of the Second World War German pilot has ...

Faulkner was in the U.S. Army during WWII with duties in the Signal Corps — where he listened in on German radio transmissions. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944.

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