World War II was marked by intense, lengthy, bombing campaigns such as the Blitz, the German offensive against the city of London. Famously, one British response was the blackout, a defensive campaign ...

WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...

Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...

Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group's World War II pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. He was 100 years old. “His legacy is ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A World War II veteran from Adams, believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot, has died at age 103. Don McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater ...

HASTINGS, Fla — After his remains were identified in June, Lt. j.g. Ralph Cornelius Dupont, a U.S. Navy pilot during World War II, will be laid to rest with full military honors Sunday in Hastings, ...