The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...
Sleek, agile, powerful and possessing a multitude of guns on the nose and wings – the fighters of World War II have etched ...
The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...
Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.
Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the ...
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file Share Anthony Faikus did just about anything he wanted. He was a World War II fighter pilot, an author of a memoir, a robust gymnast and a strong swimmer who at nearly 90 ...
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...
Restoring the salvaged 'Franken-bird' F-35A Lightning fighter jet cost an estimated $6 million, a fraction of the $80 million ...
It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft carriers and more than 300 planes. On Saipan, the Marines and army faced an enemy well dug-in and ...
Many people in Hungary (and Europe) regard 11 February as the Day of Honour when tens of thousands of German and Hungarian defenders of the Buda Castle tried to escape the Soviet siege and reach the ...