These fighters and bombers commanded fear, awe, and — decades later — huge prices in collectors' markets. Tough and brilliant, the following 13 aircraft are the most beautiful planes of the Second ...

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

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

The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in 1939. However, at this time of need, the fighter types available were pretty limited to say the least ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World War II or patrolling the airspace in today’s contested zones, these machines ...

Some aircraft succeeded even though they made life harder for the people flying them. They demanded constant attention, ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

NANKOKU, Kochi -- Once-despised "entai" concrete bunkers built here during World War II to protect military aircraft should ...

Bill Wolf, a Fountain Hills resident for the last 25 years, is deeply passionate about World War II aviation history and for ...

These days, if you want to insert combat troops into a specific area, you have several options. Helicopters are an obvious choice, as is the CV-22 Osprey, which is a combination of a plane and ...