World War Two fighter aircraft grounded after a fatal crash are to fly again, the RAF has said. The Battle of Britain ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

A flyby from a Spitfire paid tribute to one of the last surviving members of Bomber Command, as a funeral was held for a 103-year-old former ...

At just 20 years old, he completed his first bombing mission in an Avro Lancaster. On the 18th April 1945 he flew the last of ...

The first of a number of expected US B52 bombers has touched down at an RAF base in Gloucestershire. The long-range bomber, expected to be involved in any conflict with Iraq, is the first of ...

A number of bombers were brought down, including three from RAF Elvington (operated by French aircrew). The memorial service will be attended by relatives of the RAF soldiers killed during the ...

It could be called fake news - but Britain's little known 'decoy' towns and airfields cleverly lured German night bombers away from their real targets.

A World War II veteran celebrating his 100th birthday on Sunday was honoured a few days early with a special flypast by an RAF aircraft ... in B-25 Mitchell medium bombers. Originally from ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.

Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories in defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...