The Heinkel He 177 began as Germany’s ambitious heavy bomber: a 32-ton aircraft longer than a Lancaster, driven by coupled DB ...

Jimmy Stewart was not just a Hollywood star; he was a B-24 pilot flying dangerous missions with the 8th Air Force. His raid ...

It wasn't just a pub: it survived war, reinvented itself again and again, and stayed a local fixture until time finally ...

To protect the British homeland from Luftwaffe air raids, transmitters were carefully synchronized to prevent German bombers from using the radio signals as navigational beacons. In peacetime, the ...

Delegates talk near the Rafael stand with a Lite Beam laser-based defense system on display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair at the ExCeL centre, in east London, on ...

MUSIC producer Trevor Horn loved living in Checkendon. The bass player and songwriter, who is coming to perform at this year’s Rewind Festival, bought a 16th century manor house in the village in the ...

A Ukrainian serviceman stands next to the antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system in Bakhmut on February 9, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP ...

'Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ‘blitzkrieg’, meaning ‘lightning war’. Its explosive sound describes the Luftwaffe’s almost continual aerial bombardment of the British Isles from ...

Flying Fortresses of the 303rd bomber group (Hell’s Angels) drop a heavy load on industrial targets in Germany. Bettmann / Corbis Shortly before 11 a.m. on March 15, 1945, the first of 36 B-17 Flying ...

To think I was living during those times of such peril, albeit as a small child. And that’s how it was.

Airbus announced the maiden flight of the first Eurofighter acquired by the German Air Force under Project Quadriga, which ...