All 11 crewmen aboard the Heaven Can Wait bomber perished in March 1944. A pilot who died on board has been found 80 years ...

A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over British soil during World War Two. On 4 ...

The remains of a Wichita airman have been recovered and identified almost 81 years after he and his crew were shot down in ...

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 ...

A service is being held to remember the last German aircraft to be brought down over ... 10 Squadron, RAF Melbourne, who was shot down and killed, will attend the ceremony from Canada with his ...

Switzerland bought a few in the late 1930s and even used them to shoot down German pilots when they ... two 13mm MG 131 machine guns, no other plane in WWII stacked up as many aerial kills as ...

Harold Pressel with a framed photo of his flight crew and POW medal he received after he was shot down. The plane was going down, dropping from 26,000 feet to 14,000 feet in a matter of seconds.

were sent up to shoot down German fighters. By the end of the battle the better organised RAF had defeated the Luftwaffe and downed 1,887 German planes. The RAF lost 1,023 planes. The tide of the ...