During World War II, German test pilots were given a rare chance to fly a captured American P-51 Mustang. The aircraft was ...

It’s June 3rd, 1942, and nine P-40B Tomahawks from South African Air Force No. 5 Squadron surge forward to rescue French ...

LONDON (AP) — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that ...

It was supposed to be a routine mission. On April 10, 1944, Maj. Donald K. Willis, flying with the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, was tasked with escorting an Allied bombing run on a Nazi ...

The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2013. When my book group elected to read “A Higher Call,” about a World War II encounter in the ...

A farm labourer is toiling silently in the fields of northern France in the summer of 1944. It is just weeks after D-Day and all around him are German soldiers, using the farm in Normandy as their ...

The jet boasted a top speed of approximately 540 miles per hour, far surpassing the fastest Allied piston-engine fighters. There can be little doubt that, at least when the Second World War began, ...