Don Nixon sits in an easy chair in his retirement home in Langford, a heavy photo album on his lap. It’s bound by plywood covers and contains dozens of pages with hundreds of photographs that ...

Sitting alone in the darkened front nose of his Halifax bomber during another terrifying night-time mission over Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany in August 1944, Al Perry was stabbed in the eye by a ...

The federal government is creating a new military honour to pay tribute to Canadian veterans who served in Bomber Command during the Second World War. Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Veterans ...

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a new memorial for the Royal Air Force’s bomber command on Thursday, honouring tens of thousands of airmen – including Canadians – who died in World War II. The ...

The upcoming B-52J upgrade is evidence that the United States Air Force believes the legendary Stratofortress isn’t done yet.

The last time Nathan Isaacs and John Mulholland saw each other, they were dropping mines out of a plane into the waters off Heligoland, an island northwest of Germany. It was 1945. The war was nearing ...

When his country called in the Second World War, Ed Wood answered in spades. He flew 16 harrowing missions in big Lancasters as part of Bomber Command before being shot down over Stuttgart, Germany in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Before strapping into the cockpit of the U.S. Air Force's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber for missions that can stretch beyond 40 hours, pilots undergo weeks of preparation that ...

It’s the empty cots that Ron Moyes remembers. “You’d come back and there’d be maybe 25 people missing,” said the 95-year-old Royal Canadian Air Force veteran. “Then you’d have to wait. Sometimes crews ...

Johnny Fauquier, the most decorated Canadian airman of the Second World War, was born into spectacular wealth in Rockcliffe. The son of a railway builder, Fauquier grew up in a mansion named “Ardvar” ...