Now 50, he was in high school when his father bought the first of what would become one of the world’s finest private collections of World War I aircraft. “I’ve been interested in airplanes ...

World War One aircraft belonging to filmmaker Peter Jackson loaned to an Essex aerodromeWorld War One aircraft belonging to filmmaker Peter Jackson loaned to an Essex ...

World War One saw only one really big sea battle ... 24 hours a day to ensure the submarine worked well. Using aircraft in war was a new idea. Pilots first belonged to the Army's Royal Flying ...

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when it penetrated German airspace to bomb and strafe trains, railways, and ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers ... of equipment in any theatre of the world war.” Two years earlier, America’s military ...