1. Origins, Prelude, Doctrine -- 2. The Failure of Bomber Command, 1939-1941 -- 3. The Reform of Bomber Command, 1942 -- 4. The Climax of Area Bombing and the Defeat of Bomber Command, January 1943 -- ...

LONDON (AP) — Germany’s president laid a wreath Friday at Coventry Cathedral in central England, symbolically atoning for the ...

DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Germans they must reject racism and anti-Semitism at a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Allied bombing raids on Dresden, ...

Tens of thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes in the eastern city of Dresden as experts set about successfully defusing a bomb left over from World War II. Dresden's famous ...

America’s legendary 100th Bombardment Group (Heavy) earned its nickname “Bloody Hundredth” for the losses it sustained during strategic bombing missions over Europe in 1943. On its first mission on ...

Preparation For War. Populations and Powers -- Military Strengths of the Allies -- Military Strengths of the Axis -- Fleets of Major World Powers -- Soviet Forces in Europe -- Japan and the Second ...

Staff Sgt. Clifford Keeney was killed in 1944, and after a decades-long effort by his family and the Army, his body was ...

Authorities unearthed an unexploded Second World War bomb in Klettenberg Park in Cologne and had to dispose of it immediately. Roughly 8,400 people were told to evacuate an area within a 500-meter ...