In the final days of 1943, a damaged American B-17 struggled to stay in the air — its crew wounded, its engines failing. Then ...

Tanks wrought massive carnage in the Second World War, and stopping these tracked monsters from the air was a tough task. It demanded flying low, avoiding or surviving getting shot, and having a big ...

In World War II, America could produce the planes, bombs, machine gun bullets, and transport them to Europe, no question ...

The top nine most destroyed Allied planes faced the full force of the Luftwaffe’s elite fighter aces. From the Hurricane and Yak fighters to the iconic B-17 Flying Fortress, Lancaster, and the heavily ...

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A group of several hundred troops trained to embed with the Nazis as spies during World War II at Maryland's Camp Ritchie.

One of the unfortunate truths about World War II, or any war for that matter, is that far too often, those who want nothing to do with the fighting are the ones most affected. This was true around ...