After the ordnance was discovered, 18,000 people evacuated from the city. Experts worked for several hours to safely dispose ...

Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, ...

Connecting with WWII history through a B-24 pilot's recollections and flight simulation.

In a classic case of wartime jitters, the U.S. Navy once opened fire on the planet Venus. Discover the history of the ...

In the future, 3,500 new homes will be built on the former RAF base ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

Discover the amazing story of Douglas SBD Dauntless 2106—the only plane to survive the attack on Pearl Harbor and return to ...

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...

The stealth plane has gained a mysterious and iconic status over its nearly four-decade history. It’s the plane that the U.S.

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship ...

Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...