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The search continues to bring home the frozen remains of WWII soldiers

The bodies of three missing WWII soldiers have yet to be recovered 74 years after the men were stranded on a glacier in Greenland. Despite…

Incredible Tale of Shot Down RAF Crew Who Survived 11 Days On Atlantic Ocean In a Tiny Dinghy

A picture released 73 years after it was taken shows six airmen in a dinghy about to be rescued after 11 days stranded at sea.…

World War Two Prisoner Of War Survivor Recalls the Wooden Horse And Great Escape

A World War II survivor, Mac Colquhoun, recalls strolling the grounds of his prisoner-of-war camp with bags of dirt hidden beneath his clothing. The 98-year-old…

Art Schaefer – Served As A Navigator On A B-17 Bomber

Art Schaefer, now 93, attended the University of Arizona with the intention of going into the mining industry, but fate took a hand and changed…

Seriously! The Kalinin K-7 bomber actually took to the air!!!!

The Kalinin K-7 was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It was of unusual configuration with…

CWHM Lancaster bomber’s borrowed engine returns to U.K.

Ian Harvey

  Two functioning Canadian bombers including the Hamilton Lancaster spent six weeks over the summer on a tour of the UK. During the tour, one…

ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY – Review by Nate Sullivan

Nate Sullivan
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY

On the night of December 29, 1940, at the very same moment the Luftwaffe was raining down bombs over London, American President Franklin Roosevelt addressed…

Salvaging the Dornier Do 17

Ian Harvey
Dornier Do 17

Only one Dornier Do 17 bomber is still in existence, and up until last year it resided at the bottom of the English Channel. Thanks…

19 Missing Soldiers from WWII Honored by two Veterans

Ian Harvey
Missing Soldiers

A WWII aircraft was used recently in a service to nineteen men who went MIA during the war. The missing soldiers are believed dead, their…

WWII Pilot Ludwig Havlak Visits Old Plane “Witchcraft”

Ian Harvey
WWII pilot

Many surviving WWII pilots are relatively nervous about seeing their old planes for the first time in so many years. It seems like a reasonable…

Halifax Celebrates Anniversary of Tragic Bomber Crash

Ian Harvey
bomber crash

There were nine deaths in the tragic crash of a bomber from Halifax that occurred seven decades ago. When the engine of bomber JP137 went…

The Young RAF Heroes Who Never Went To War

Ian Harvey
RAF

In 1944, Peter Cannon was only 10 years old and listening to the noise of planes flying overhead during long winter nights. He and his…