An iconic Avro Lancaster flies over RAF Fairford during the Royal International Air Tattoo, forming up with a Hawker Hurricane and a Supermarine Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

A memorial has been unveiled to commemorate the crew of a Lancaster bomber who perished when their plane crashed during World War Two. The bomber, piloted by Flt Sgt Geoffrey Appleyard, crashed on 26 ...

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

A team of students from the University of Arizona will spend the next month sifting through soil in a farm field in Poland in search of closure for several Gold Star families whose loved ones were ...

Malcolm Rubin grew up in Elmira and, after studying at Cornell University, joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Rubin was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down in November 1944 over ...

A crew had just watched their bombs drop over Kyushu, Japan when flak hit their aircraft and an engine caught fire. Before their B-29 bomber exploded, one man died on board and another was fatally ...

Two years after the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air reignited interest in the WWII “Bloody Hundredth,” the book that inspired it is getting a deluxe collector’s upgrade. On March 3, 2026, The ...

For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the traumatic realization that their loved ones were among the many still lost ...

The US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been helping lead search efforts after a World War Two B-17 bomber wreckage was ...