Summary and Key Points: On June 8, 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was ambushed by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Norwegian Sea. Lacking radar ...

The Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center offers a rare opportunity to step into the past and experience the ...

By approximately mid-1943, Admiral Ernest J. King (Chief of Naval Operations) ordered the "... procurement of 23 of the ...

Wilson’s new Class A affiliated Minor League Baseball Team, the Wilson Warbirds, roared to life this afternoon as vintage 1940s military aircraft ushered in a grand celebration and a new era of ...

Originally, in the early 1940s, radar was used in aircraft to detect other aircraft. The device did not work as well in precipitation because of all the clutter until it occurred to people that ...

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 24 July 1940. 1940: Lord Beaverbrook on aircraft production. Video, 00:07:511940: Lord Beaverbrook on aircraft production Up Next. 1978: Timing is everything.