If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in Second. Previously, air power primarily served to support the army and navy, ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were ...

When John Dodds found a World War II bomber jacket in a Washington, D.C., thrift store, his interest was piqued. The Air Force lawyer noticed that the jacket still had its original owner’s name ...

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...

The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were Black military pilots and crew members ... and escorted bomber missions into and out of Germany. They served in every theater of World War II. The group was established ...

By World War II, bombers became some of the most important ... Each aircraft costs $84 million (in 2012 dollars), has a crew of five, and can be refueled in the air by a KC-135 Stratotanker ...

There was no indication that anyone escaped the crash, the department said, and the crew was reported ... airman whose aircraft was shot down over Germany during World War II have been identified ...