An innovative new way of fighting in the air developed in the 1930s, where fighter planes were equipped with a rotating ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...

World War II veteran Wingate “Wink” Marion Collins, born Jan. 29, 1925, turned 100 years old last week. Wink celebrated with ...

Topping a Tudor house will be a chimney, often intricately detailed or with a decorative brick design. Chimneys were invented ...

Bomber Mountain in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains paid dearly to earn its name when a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into it in ...

The Fairmont Breakers Long Beach is a California landmark, originally built in 1926 and now gorgeously restored to its former ...

The Bulldog was designed as a light tank that was to be used for reconnaissance purposes, and as a replacement for the World War II-era M24 Chaffee ... operated turret. The power of the engine ...

where he shipped out to fight in World War II. After arriving in Europe, he served in Italy with the 15th Air Force’s 47th Wing, 449th Bomb Group. On January 20, 1944, he was the top turret ...

Clarence Gibbs, 21, of North Carolina, the top-turret gunner ... That’s where his brother, who also served in World War II, is buried. Nyberg’s relatives have decided to inter him at Arlington ...

After he reached the treeline, the turret on which he stood for that ... As the most decorated soldier of World War II, he not only wrote his popular autobiography "To Hell and Back," but also ...