The occupation of Poland may have turned out to be the last hurrah of Polish warplanes during WWII, but not the Polish combat pilots, more specifically the ones that escaped into exile in Great ...

BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

Tuskegee Airmen Detroit Chapter President Arthur Green, left, holds a P-51D model as Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., center, and ...

The Bertram Mills Circus, founded by Bertram Wagstaff Mills of Chalfont St Giles, was world famous for half a century.

More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 to 15, ...

The RAF withdrew the Defiant from frontline duty due to the warbird’s limited endurance. When one thinks of gun turrets on ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. While others came from occupied nations in Europe, including: Czechs, Poles, French and ...

The Luftwaffe records mention an Ernst Gerbrecht who went on to fly Messerschmitt 109 fighters in the Battle of Britain and the Siege of Malta! The German pilots were entertained to a Civic ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

One of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen passed away early this month, reports AL.com’s Alaina Bookman. He died in his home in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Harry Stewart Jr. was born in Virginia. After ...