A military medal awarded to a racing pigeon for his heroic wartime exploits is coming home to Furness after it was bought on behalf of the ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept ...

The B-32 only flew some recon missions and engaged in some skirmishes in the closing days of WWII before being retired and ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen, has died at 100 years old.

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

The U.S. Air Force unit and its deadly missions in World War II are also the subject of a new Apple TV+ documentary.

(Photo by Evan Bevins) Castle Executive Director Scott Britton discusses the conditions in internment camps to which Japanese-Americans were relocated during World War II at the Marietta museum ...

The Dickin Medal, often known as the Victoria Cross for animals, was given to him in 1946 and has been bought by the Dock Museum in Barrow ... was shot and wounded by German soldiers.

With a winning bid of £30,000, they were able to secure the medal, which will now have a home at The Dock Museum in Barrow. The blue cock pigeon was owned by Mr William Brockbank, a blacksmith's ...

During World War II, his family fled Soviet troops, settling in a town near Leipzig, Germany. Nine years later, they fled again after the 1953 East German uprising, an anti-Soviet revolt.