and became one of the most widely-used and produced aircraft of the pre-WWI era, setting records in both civil and military aviation. The man behind the Blériot XI was Louis Blériot, an engineer ...

The Junkers J.I was deployed during the German spring offensive in 1918, Germany’s last gamble to defeat the British and the French ... WWI gallery. It is easy today to take the all-metal ...

And, he was still wearing a wedding ring. The ring was inscribed with his wedding date — Dec. 25, 1908 — and the body was ...

Delaporte French National Institute for Preventive ... new enough that the person still had shoes and clothing buttons present in their burial, researchers said. It was a man still carrying ...

The last French troops left the N'djamena military base they occupied for about 70 years this week, continuing France’s reduced military presence in West Africa. Chad's President Field Marshal ...

France ended its military presence in Chad on Thursday, leaving its last base in the central African nation a day ahead of the deadline set by Chadian authorities. To mark the end of French ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

A French military aircraft conducting a reconnaissance flight as part of NATO’s operation in response to Russia's suspected damage to underwater cables has been targeted with an "attempted jamming" ...