US Air Force and Navy restore historic WWII-era airfield on Tinian in the Pacific. The airfield was a key launching point for ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

These are some highlights from attacks on American and RAF bombers by Me-109s and Me-262s. This is playing the historic combat flight simulator, IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles series.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

On the corner of Oak and Washington Streets sits a brick marker that is easy to overlook. Dedicated in March 2001, it honors ...

The US Air Force restores North Field Airbase, the WWII launch site for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, to ...

By the end of WWII there were 237 decoy sites protecting ... It was known that German bombers would drop incendiary bombs to start fires as a guide to other bombers that followed,' he told MailOnline.

They were built as fake WWII factories, airfields and towns to fool Luftwaffe night bombers and manned by heroes - now scientists and historians are uncovering the UK's decoy sites. Ingeniously ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.