Today, 80 years after the end of the Second World War in Europe, a wide range of celebrations are taking place ...

(AP pic) Pakistan said it shot down five Indian airplanes and took Indian soldiers prisoner in retaliation to Indian military strikes early Wednesday. The downing of the jets are not “hostile ...

it was shot down on a mission to bomb Berlin. All seven of its crew members were killed. Sadly, this was entirely typical. During the war, 55,573 of RAF Bomber Command’s airmen were killed out ...

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KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's air defence units shot down 42 of 116 drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack that hit the regions of Sumy and Donetsk, the military said on Monday. It said ...

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's air defence units shot down 42 of 116 drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack that hit the regions of Sumy and Donetsk, the military said on Monday. It said another ...

Ukraine's Defence Intelligence announced the downing of a Russian Su-30 fighter jet in the Black Sea using a seaborne drone, a world first. The $50 million aircraft was reportedly destroyed near ...

RAF pilot Derrick Grubb, 101, of Havant, Hampshire, while based in Italy in 1943, was shot down and captured as a prisoner of war ... Kenneth Smith, 98, of Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland, was a ...

RAF pilot Derrick Grubb, 101, of Havant, Hampshire, while based in Italy in 1943, was shot down and captured as ... of Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland, was a young Royal Navy stoker when ...

Its statement on social media said the fighter had been shot down by a military intelligence unit called Group 13 on Friday over waters near Novorossiisk, a major Russian port city on the Black Sea.

After serving in the RAF for 10 years, he started working as a storeman at Sunderland Forge before later working at Rolls Royce. Freddie is a keen Sunderland AFC fan and he also used to act as ...

Yet if you travel to Oakland International Airport and head to the Oakland Aviation Museum, you will see that the centerpiece of this museum is one of the last examples of a four-engine flying boat ...