A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil during World War Two. On 4 March 1945, a German aircraft crashed at Elvington near York killing ...
Navy Times on MSN6d
The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with itIt was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
Driven by unprecedented times, scientists and engineers forged technological breakthroughs amidst the flames of war.
Wing Commander James 'Butch' McArthur claimed eight kills and three other 'probables' during heartstopping dogfights with the ...
FLYING on MSN11d
Dutch Fokker D.VII Fighter Looted During WWII to Be ReturnedThe aircraft was taken during World War II to become part of a Nazi-Luftwaffe museum planned by Hermann Göring, who ...
The Advocate (Newark) on MSN8d
Alexandria native, 100, survived 'miraculous' B-24 flight across Adriatic Sea in World War IINewark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.
It wasn't one of the worst fighter planes of World War II, and despite suffering from ... By comparison, the German Tiger 1 Tank had boasted frontal armor 3.9 inches thick.
The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...
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