After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...

The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...

What began as a bombing mission to destroy an enemy bridge turned into a story of heroic bravery and incredible odds for ...

The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

Second Lieutenant Clifford E. Rowe is listed on the National Archives Gold Star Honor Roll as being from Lafayette County, ...

A collection of rare Second World War medals belonging to a Luton bomber pilot are going up for auction next month – and are ...

Israel carried out air strikes across Gaza after two months of truce A ceasefire which had halted fighting between Israel and Hamas for two months appears to be over following an intense wave of ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John "Paddy" Hemingway, has died at the age of 105. Mr Hemingway, who was originally from Dublin, joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a teenager before ...

A P-51 Mustang flies over Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., during a 2015 event. (A1C Philip Bryant/Air Force) For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought ...