From the Me 262 to late-war Spitfires and Mustangs, this list ranks WWII’s quickest combat-ready aircraft by top speed and ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...

An archaeologist said she was "delighted" to discover a World War Two air raid shelter in her back garden after removing some overgrowth. Mary Andrews, 35, bought the end-of-terrace Victorian house in ...

Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...