Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

They shipped out for England, where they were assigned to the 15th Air Force. When he finally arrived two weeks behind them, in December 1944, he was assigned to the 8th Air Force.

At least four people have been injured following an explosion near a U.S. military air base in Japan. Local and defense ministry officials said that four Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (SFD) members ...

Three U.S. World War II bombs found in Cologne defused after prompting the evacuation of 20,000 residents and the closure of hospitals, businesses and transportation routes.

The community has for decades honored members of the Army’s 15th Air Force, 2nd Bomb Group, who were attacked by German forces on Aug. 29, 1944, in the Battle Over the White Carpathians; about 100 ...

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Troy Meink as the next Air Force secretary in a 74-25 vote, with multiple Democrats breaking ranks to vote for President Donald Trump’s nominee. Meink, who ...

• Kovaleski, a native of Southbridge, Mass., was an engineer and ball turret gunner assigned to the 760th Bombardment Squadron, 460th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, in the European ...

His crew was part of the 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Fifteenth Air Force, which deployed 21 bombers over the German-occupied country on Jan. 11, 1944.

(tense music) This aircraft flew 126 missions during World War II out of the Italy and North Africa Theater as part of the 15th Air Force, and it was capable of carrying 3000 pounds of bombs in ...