Shot down behind enemy lines, Soviet pilot S. Kuzniecov’s mission wasn’t over. What happened after his crash turned into one of the boldest, most unexpected reversals of World War II. A damaged ...

Maj. Donald K. Willis crash-landed his plane in Nazi-occupied Holland then stopped at cafes for beers — all while evading the ...

In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were ...

Their role was to free male pilots for combat duty during World War II. They delivered aircraft from factories to military bases, conducted flight checks, towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun ...

From Fort Worth, this copilot of a B-17 that was shot down is remembered on the Walls of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery.

Crew of the “Heaven Can Wait” bomber in Papua New Guinea. 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. is the middle figure in the back row, ...

Miller, who had begged his widowed mother to let him enlist in the Navy after graduating from East Aurora High School at age ...

This week on The World, former GCHQ director Sir Jeremy Fleming joins Richard and Yalda for a wide-ranging conversation, in which he reveals what he thinks will happen in the war in Ukraine. Sir ...