Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley, pilots began reporting inexplicable lights following their aircraft. One night in November 1944, a Bristol Beaufighter crew ...

The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex airfields on 24 March 1945, to be dropped directly on top of the German lines at the River Rhine. Paratroopers and gliders packed ...

Colin (left) and Sean Welch search for fragments of a German V-2 missile in the British village Lynsted. Their other quarry is the V-1 “doodlebug”—thousands of which were shot down over the ...

A manhunt is under way after three bodies were found in a residential building in a village in western Germany. The suspect fled when officers arrived at the scene in Weitefeld, Westerwald, and is ...

The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities.