It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

Three newly unearthed German bombing maps of Sheffield provide a chilling insight into Hitler’s precise targets across the city. Contrary to the long-held belief that the Luftwaffe’s primary ...

AT THE end of 1941, the German Luftwaffe were on the back foot ... coming within 400 miles of its intended target, shown in the map below in the top-secret plans. The four-ton bomb would have ...

On old maps that land was once a school and later ... had chosen to flee to safer parts of the country to escape the Luftwaffe bombing of big cities like Liverpool. He said: "Edge Hill was a ...

Track maintenance workers found a 1,100-pound unexploded bomb from World War II while conducting overnight work in ...

Mark "Bill" Bailey, who survived the Blitz, takes a sneak peek at a new and free exhibition at the London Archives in Clerkenwell. It details the lives of ordinary Londoners through the bombings.

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, belonging to Norway, is famous for being home to the Global Seed Vault and for having ...

He knew that he was sending his soldiers off to France with the best maps available ... along the southeast coast of England. German Luftwaffe planes were occasionally allowed to fly over to ...