On February 3, 1945, one of the most controversial bombing missions of World War II was set into motion. A massive force of over 1,400 American bombers, escorted by nearly 1,000 fighters, advanced ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

BERLIN Nazi scientists trying to build an atomic bomb set off a test explosion two months before the end of World War II, killing hundreds of people in eastern Germany, a German researcher claims in a ...