The literal, physical fight to protect American bombers against the ravages of Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter planes, which saved the lives of many a B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator crewmembers ...

Biju Patnaik is recognized for his participation in the Stalingrad Operation and support to the Red Army during World War II. According to an article published in Odisha Review, Biju had flown ...

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center left, is greeted by Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof, center right, as dozens of World War II veterans gathered for Liberation Day celebrations ...

Colin Bell is a regular at the RAF Club in London where he pops in for a G&T and a chat with other members in the Churchill Bar. Smartly dressed, and walking without a stick, it is a week before ...

Former students of a local girls’ school who sent off the pilots with small branches of yaezakura cherry trees in their hands have attended past ceremonies. This year, which marks the 80th anniversary ...

Tusk spoke at a Dutch Liberation Day ceremony where WWII veterans were given a standing ... on a square outside the Hotel de Wereld, where German top brass signed papers on May 5, 1945, that ...

Following World War II, German football was disorganized, but the Bundesliga was officially established in 1963. This saw the knockout competition abolished and a pyramid structure established ...

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe ... in the war that they sought out pilots from around the world, even ...

He met me at the door in his full-dress Air Force uniform, his pilot wings above row upon row of combat ribbons ... Colonel Walter Stewart on flying his B-24 home after WWII ended in Europe. He ...

The Italian and German pilots sat playing cards and drinking beer ... Rows of Ju52s, Dorniers and Stuka dive-bombers burst into flames. In a matter of seconds, the airbase was transformed into ...

(7News) — Inside the College Park Aviation Museum, Herb Jones looks at the pictures of the planes, of the pilots ... was Herb Jones' father. After World War II, the elder Jones helped revive ...