Japan's destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier recently concluded sea trials off California that put Lockheed's F-35B to the test.

In a small plot alongside Greenbank Road there are British, Polish and Commonwealth servicemen and women who lost their lives ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...

The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is often cited as one of the worst aircraft carriers in history. Designed by ...

In the first week of May, following Adolph Hitler’s suicide on April 30, the Nazi regime collapsed. Berlin fell to the Soviets, and Axis armies in Italy gave up. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered, ...

France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, but an internal resistance movement had struggled to sabotage occupying forces and overthrow the German-backed Vichy government. By late summer of 1944, as ...

Saiorse Ronan and Paul Weller from band The Jam star in a story of struggle and hope during Germany's air raids over England.

Like the Great War of 1914-18, the Second World War caused a huge loss of life for the men of the region fighting in foreign ...

As they returned, the airdome lit up with anti-aircraft fire. Martin’s plane was hit, and he bailed out over Yugoslavia.

World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...