As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, ...

A historian is hoping to trace relatives of a Middlesbrough flight engineer who died in an air crash in a French village in ...

Many military aviation history buffs are at least somewhat familiar with the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the heroic and ...

Fast, precise, and deadly—the sniper bomber of WWII was more than a blunt force weapon. It redefined aerial warfare with pinpoint accuracy and unexpected agility. Discover the aircraft that ...

Serving as a pilot officer, Hall lost his life at the age of just 27 when his Vickers Wellington bomber was shot down near St Polten in Austria during the summer of 1944. William Noble Imrie After ...

Maurice explained: “The next move was to Wellington bombers. Then as a crew we trained on four engine Halifax bombers. Eventually we joined an operational bomber squadron in Lincolnshire Wolds ...

Three lifeboats were launched following reports that a Wellington bomber had ditched into the freezing waters of the North Sea near the Cromer Knoll sandbank. The aircraft had taken part in the Battle ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — For more than a decade, passengers at New Zealand ’s Wellington Airport have boarded flights below the figures of two giant, hovering eagles from the Hobbit ...

The first England cricketer to die during the war was Legge, who captained Kent in 1930, played five Tests, all overseas, and scored 196 in his final match for England, against New Zealand at Eden ...

He was too big for the small cockpits so was moved to Wellington Bombers. He finished his training academy in Canada top of the class. Farnes was a much better bowler than batsman – here he is b ...