Missing in Action. Just six weeks before World War II would end, the news came to four U.S. service member Families via ...

Also known as the Stuka, the plane consistently proved its worth as the most effective dive bomber in the German fleet and participated in events like the Battle of Britain. The P-51D Mustang is ...

Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was ... Almost 80 years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved to ...

Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley ... and they often out-maneuvered the airplanes they were chasing. They never showed up on radar. Richard Ziebart, historian ...

The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex airfields on 24 March 1945, to be dropped directly on top of the German lines at the River Rhine. Paratroopers and gliders packed ...

The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities.

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...