Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...

50-caliber guns in a Plexiglas turret mounted on the ... David Sample met Pressel about 30 years ago at a World War II memorial week in Reading, Pa. Sample had provided the artwork for the event ...

to shoot the flexible machine guns. The journalists took part in a combat mission over Wilhelmshaven, Germany in February 1943 to attack the German Naval submarine pens there. Sadly, the mission ...

“When I post on Facebook about my Confederate ancestor, I get flak from friends,” a reenactor ... Occasionally, at WWII events, they’ll get uneasy when someone waxes too enthusiastic about ...

Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

50 caliber machine guns ... during WWII, the Soviet Union’s Ilyushin Il-2 bomber became the most-manufactured aircraft of the war. The bomber played a crucial role in stopping the German ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members ... a risk of being torpedoed and possibly sunk by the German submarines patrolling the area.

These more versatile guns and stronger firepower became key to facing enemies in combat situations. (In the 1950s, after World War II was complete, these are the ten guns that revolutionized U.S ...

The Maschinengewehr 42, more commonly called the MG42, was Germany’s final development in its longstanding “universal machine ...