The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying ...

On January 1, 1945, the skies over Western Europe erupted in one of the most intense air battles of World War II. The German Luftwaffe launched Operation Boden Plata, a high-risk attack against ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

The film follows the true story of Hermann Göring's incarceration and trial following his capture in the final days of WWII.

Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR ...

On February 24th, I went on my last mission. It was my 24th mission. It was a mission to bomb a target over Steyr, Austria.

As World War 2 was in its final stages and the Allied forces were approaching the heart of the Third Reich, dozens of German cities were being raised to the ground as part of a strategic bombing ...

“The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts his sad story as if he were an old man”, she noted ...

As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, in northern France, the Allies began an invasion in the works for years: D-Day, the start of Operation Overlord that turned the tide against Nazi Germany. Storming the ...

Today, countries are unwilling to extradite their leaders to international courts and many prefer to settle the scores on ...

Goalkeeper Bert Trautmann (left) and John Charles (right) both make Sir Bobby Charlton's World XI (Schirner/ullstein bild via Getty Images; Don Morley/Allsport UK/Getty Images; Evening Standard/Hulton ...