In the final years of World War II, Nazi Germany conceived an ambitious weapon: the Silbervogel, or "Silver Bird," a suborbital spaceplane designed to bomb New York from the edge of space.

The bombers faced little resistance and around 20,000 civilians were killed. Six Lancasters were destroyed. The spitfire is the most famous plane of WW2. Its groundbreaking design and superior ...

On June 9, 1944, just days after the Normandy invasion, Robert Kehoe and his team boarded British Stirling bombers to carry ...

When the Germans occupied the Netherlands in 1940, they turned the Haarlemsche Courant into a Nazi propaganda newspaper. Years later, as D-Day approached, the Nazis scrambled to distribute an ...

Most Carpetbagger missions were flown in bombers retrofitted to drop spies and supplies instead of bombs. They were painted black to blend into the night sky. Starting in spring 1944, the ...

German bombers drop 500 tonnes of high explosives ... the D-Day invasion was launched by the Allies against Nazi Germany on 6 June 1944. WW2: What would you have done when the bombs fell?

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...

LONDON, June 2, 1944 (UP) -- R.A.F. heavy bombers, embarked upon a campaign to ruin Nazi rail communications in Western Europe, attacked German targets in enemy-occupied territory again during the ...

An unexploded WW2 bomb found near Gare du Nord station in Paris has been defused ... who dropped it and if it is dated before ...