During WWII, Dayton's airport became a major modification center for warplanes before they were sent to combat areas. Dan Patterson discusses that history and how companies like Sierra Nevada are ...

Ches Black, 100, was taken to Berlin in Germany due to a shortage of manual labour there - but had no idea he would be working for the dictator.

Royal Marine veteran Joseph Douglas Cheshire, who has just turned 102, got parental consent and joined just after his 17th ...

History isn’t always as far away as it seems. In Lamar County, it's tucked between the Purvis Library and the post office.

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

When massive freight trains loaded with tanks roll past civilian towns, most people assume it’s unusual. It isn’t. From the first troop trains of the 1830s to World War II’s armored rail fortresses, ...

Q: While thinking through the operating scheme for my World War II-era (1944) model railroad, I wondered where troop trains sat in timetable priority. Obviously they were extras, but were they bumped ...

Have you ever cared so much about something that you would do anything to protect it? That's how a young bookseller named Henry Knox felt about his hometown of Boston during the Revolutionary War. In ...

A burned passenger train car — roof torn open, interior twisted to metal sculpture by a Russian drone strike — is being hauled into Kyiv as world leaders arrive to mark the fourth anniversary of ...

A Queensland centenarian and WWII veteran who witnessed bombs being dropped on Australia says it is important the youth of today learn about wars to prevent future conflicts from happening.