By far the **best American fighter** in operational service in 1939, and by far the **shiniest aircraft** on this list, the * ...

A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now stands.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 0 intro bundesarchiv bild 101i 3 Tanks wrought massive carnage in the Second World War, and stopping these tracked monsters from ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...

The Luftwaffe's Mistel, or Mistletoe, was a unique German composite aircraft configuration used during the last months of World War II. Alongside jet-powered aircraft like the Arado Ar 234 bomber or ...

Hell does indeed freeze over in this rousing history of Allied supply convoys to the Soviet Union. Historian Sebag-Montefiore (Dunkirk) recaps the exploits of British, American, and Russian freighters ...

I've gone through the Luftwaffe claims provided by Tony Wood in his Combat Claims & Casualty Lists as well as various other sources for German Ace's aerial victories to produce this video. Is it a ...

During World War II, allied pilots were among the most fearless and revered figures from the six-year conflict that consumed over 75% of the global population. The early stages of the war saw the ...