A West Virginian man was flying a damaged B-17 bomber that was about to be shot down by German forces during World War II ...

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Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...

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World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...

The South Carolina Military Museum honored one of the few World War II veterans still alive, 99-year-old Bruce Cook.

My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...

I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...

With that long preamble/soapbox speech aside, let’s get on with what I consider to be the five best fighter jets of World War II. Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”) (Nazi Germany ...