War in focus

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by an American B-29 bomber, preceding the country’s capitulation in WWII. Here navigator Theodore Van Kirk recalls his experience of the day that changed history

This photo is 65 years old but a large number of the cars have survived

2 MAR 1965 OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER BEGINS ...

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

The Luftwaffe’s feared ‘destroyer’ long-range fighter met with very mixed success