Three Allied aerial bombing decoy sites from World War II were recently investigated, uncovering significant variations in ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

They were built as fake WWII factories, airfields and towns to fool Luftwaffe night bombers and manned by heroes ... Ingeniously built along the German radio beam directions they used to navigate ...

The Lancaster Bomber carried out daring missions ... VE Day or Victory in Europe Day was on 8 May 1945, following Germany's surrender in WW2. But how did Britain plan for one of the greatest ...

Julia Maruca Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 7:52 p.m. | Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 7:52 p.m. Among the trees of a national forest park near Frankfurt, Germany ... a World War II bomber crash site.

In WW2, the British made destroying German dams a key strategic target ... they needed a special plane to deliver the payload: the Lancaster Bomber. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing ...

An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad weather in Reigate while returning from a mission over Germany on 19 March 1945. On Wednesday, a service took place at the ...

Keele University researchers have investigated three World War II Allied aerial bombing decoy ... a network of decoy sites to mislead German bombers away from strategic targets.

Through World War II history and cultural depictions of the ... was to make it harder for German pilots to navigate to their targets. “The German bombers would all come across the North Sea ...