In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

San Jose resident Sandy Bellou remembers her mother crying whenever she spoke about her older brother, 2nd Lt. Robert ...

Legend had it that Dorothy Furey was the daughter of a wealthy banana importer. Legend had it that her family lost a fortune ...

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... who had been forcibly recruited by the German military were rounded up while in German uniform in France and handed over to ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or ...

“ Ronnie Scott’s departure is news that saddens both Argentines and Britons. Born in Villa Devoto, he lived 107 years in which he always maintained his commitment to the community. And in World War II ...

It was the "spirit of the day" that drew Bill Purdy to the air force during World War II. The now-centenarian still remembers being called up as a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1942. "The war had been ...

And in World War II, he showed his bravery as a pilot in the Royal Navy.” R.I.P. and God bless, Ronald David Scott, ‘til Valhalla.

That's not great for a combat aircraft built in the hundreds during World War II, but that's what happened ... for aircraft that cause multiple pilots' deaths due to poor design and manufacture ...