Decades after it vanished, a WWII plane wreck has resurfaced, reigniting the story of a fallen hero and his final mission. Beneath layers of debris and history, investigators have found fragments that ...

In this episode we tell the harrowing story of three tail gunners from World War II who cheated death after falling from around 20,000 feet while aboard B-17 Flying Fortresses and a B-24 Liberator.

It seemed too good to be true — a mysterious post from a Facebook user nearly 4,000 miles away claiming to have unearthed a link to the past. Debbie Wahl of Shoemakersville was intrigued when she ...

HELSINKI — Two German men died when their World War II-era airplane crashed and caught fire in southern Finland minutes after takeoff, police said Thursday. The single-engine, two-seater T-6 Texan ...

On 1 October 1939 Winston Churchill gave his first wartime broadcast, on the recently created BBC Home Service. Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered his assessment of the first month ...

During World War II the United States rapidly transformed its economy to cope with a wide range of scarcities, such as shortfalls in the amounts of ocean shipping, aluminum, rubber, and other raw ...