Amid this inferno, 20-year-old Utah native Donald William Pullan – assigned to the 911th Air Engineering Squadron – arrived four days after D-Day, jumping into waist-deep water, his boots sinking into ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or in this base, the bomb-holder. These warplanes may take the fight to the enemy, but ...

The Avro Lancaster was the star of the recent VE Day celebrations, leading the ceremonial flypast over London.

While the 1960s are defined by cinematic “New Wave” movements coming out of Europe, Japan, and even the United States, movie stars still held their sway as the sole reasons why people paid to see new ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the ...

The striking installation involves thousands of poppies which have carefully been arranged in the silhouette of a Lancaster Bomber ... “During WWII, more than a million men and women served in or ...

Ellis was commanding a new crew on their first raid and with his rear gunner out of action, he was raked by ... life and limb time and again with his Lancaster crew during the Second World War." ...

It’s the kind of moment that gives you chills - a glorious World War II Lancaster bomber roaring to life and taking off, led into the skies by a Spitfire. The sound alone is enough to stop you ...