One of the most heroic air raids occurred 75 years ago during World War II on Aug. 1, 1943. On that date, 178 B-24 Liberators from five Army Air Forces bomber groups near Benghazi, Libya, conducted a ...

Jo Spencer was 13 months old in 1955 when her father died a few feet from her, on the floor near her crib in Middletown, Ohio. That shell of a man, Christopher Norman Holweger, was just 34. Twelve ...

WASHINGTON -- The pilot in one of the most iconic air battle photographs of World War II wonders whether the Pentagon really thought things through before naming the current air campaign to destroy ...

The war planners called it Operation Tidal Wave. Today, it is considered by many historians the most spectacular air raid of the war: dozens of bombers flying hundreds of miles just above the treetops ...

PLOESTI (407 pp.)—James Dugan & Carroll Stewart — Random House ($6.95). A naked woman flashed on a motion-picture screen set up at an Army Air Forces base in the Libyan desert near Bengasi one baking ...

In August 1943, the US launched an audacious raid on one of Nazi Germany's most valuable resources. Nearly 200 B-24 bombers carried out a low-level attack on oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania. 79 ...