"Before charging headlong into this icy island again, the U.S. would be remiss not to learn from past failures," argues an ...

History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh ...

Christmas 1943, a badly shot up B-17 struggled to stay in the air, it was the first mission for the 21-year-old pilot, half ...

On a moonlit night over occupied Europe, a returning Vickers Wellington limped home after a successful raid when a German ...

The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of ...

On 8 May 1942, United States and Australian naval and air forces engaged with the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Battle of the ...

One of the longest surviving World War Two veterans in Guernsey has died at the age of 104. John Barnes was born in London ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Minot Air Force Base carries the name of the city of Minot but a number of other names were suggested ...

It's hard to imagine Greater Manchester residents barricading themselves and rushing to bomb shelters at a siren's wail. Unlike other parts of mainland Europe now, it ...

Not too far from the Cambridgeshire border, in west Norfolk, is an RAF base with dating back to WW2. Today, RAF Feltwell functions like a housing estate but it was once a bomber station during the ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...