In letters to his wife, a World War II veteran from Michigan shared love, fear and hope. Their daughter has preserved 250 ...

In letters to his wife, a World War II veteran and Hamtramck resident shared love, fear and hope. Their daughter has ...

Cameras and NOAA weather satellites captured the moment when a meteor exploded into a brilliant fireball over the western U.S ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re re-fighting WW2 or blowing planes out of the sky in Battlefield. We’ve chosen some highlights from top-quality war games on PC for your ...

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which was a golden age for military aviation. During that war, in just a few years there were still some biplanes and open-cockpit ...

The first of two of the world’s rarest historic military aircraft still flying touched down at the Penticton Regional Airport earlier this week. The B-17 flying fortress Sentimental Journey ...

You write of the earth sciences growing particularly important during the Cold War era — why was this so?■ There was a huge ...

The Midway-class aircraft carriers, introduced post-World War II, became essential to the U.S. Navy during the Cold War. Built for endurance, these carriers were the first to carry nuclear arms ...

Flares: These are bright, hot-burning decoys that attract heat-seeking missiles, drawing them away from the aircraft. Chaff: Chaff is a cloud of small metal strips that confuse radar-guided ...

On December 8, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Congress did so, and the president signed the declaration of war the same day. On December 11, Nazi Germany and ...

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Claude Keith Weaver, known to his family as “Uncle Bud,” in a plane crash during World War II. Weaver was born on June 4, 1920, in Davis, West Virginia, but his family subsequently moved to the ...