You need to score five aerial kills to become an ace, so there’s something numerically poetic about the fact that there were ...

But one year later, tragedy visited the Yeary home. On April 8, 1944, a B-24 carrying Hubert, the ball turret gunner, took ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

I'm no hero. I wish that word had never been put in the dictionary," said William Phelps, a 101st Airborne Division artilleryman.

The suspect in the German car-ramming attack that killed five and injured more than 200 on Friday has been identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a self-described member of the “liberal opposition ...

Bill Patten, a World War II B-17 bomber pilot who flew 36 missions over Germany with the 15th Air Force, died in January at ...

The remains of a Massachusetts airman whose aircraft was shot down over Germany during World War II have been identified, and ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission ...

Combat aviation aces—defined as those who have destroyed five or more enemy aircraft in aerial combat—are literally a dying ...

Discover the fascinating facts and surprising timeline of the All Creatures Great and Small's author's WWII experience.