In a daring mountaintop raid, Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny launched an impossible mission to rescue Mussolini from a fortress prison in the Italian Alps—changing the course of World War II in the ...

The 300 or so B-29 bombers deployed for the Great Tokyo Air Raid dropped 330,000 incendiary bombs over downtown Tokyo on March 10, a few months before Japan’s surrender in World War II.

“The USAAF 49th Fighter Group provided Darwin with its only fighter defence from March to September 1942 against fast and well-armed Mitsubishi G4M ‘Betty’ bombers escorted by Mitsubishi A6M ‘Zero’ ...

World War II begins. May: As Germany marches into Belgium ... Shortly thereafter, more than six hundred U.S. bombers raid Berlin. Despite the devastation caused by the bombing, Germany is able ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air ...

Curtis LeMay, who masterminded the devastating firebombing of Tokyo during World War II. The petition to the ... the 80th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid. “LeMay had no remorse for ...