In her book "Small Town, Big Secrets," historian Sally J. Ling shares how 28 Black cadets came to Boca Raton to be trained on radar, some of whom would become Tuskegee Airmen.
The Battle of Iwo Jima cost nearly 7000 Americans their lives. This weekend, the National Museum of the Pacific War honors ...
Mysteries still shroud a tragedy 80 years ago in which many civilian passengers died in U.S. military attacks on running ...
According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over the Germans. To ensure the ground effort got to Berlin, the air war had to ...
The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...
Of the 100,000 troops that go to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin each year to train, hundreds of them might live in barracks built during World War II. The Army is relocating five 83-year-old barracks to ...
The airport was first used by the U.S. Army Air Force for training during World War II (date unknown for photo). [Courtesy: Curt and Eric Schutze] The airfield’s origins are rooted in World War ...
RAF Little Staughton is a former RAF station, a 'class A' airfield that was able to support heavy bombers ... RAF base now a world-famous aviation museum Read more: The former WW2 RAF base with ...
"It's on an old airfield, which is open to the elements, and over the past few years with all the wet weather we've had, we've stated to notice things that need upgrading and repairing," he said.
The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...
RAF Little Staughton is a former RAF station, a 'class A' airfield that was able to support heavy bombers such as Boeing B-17s, Consolidated B-24s, and Avro Lancasters. The station was handed to ...