The 120-PM-38 was a 120mm heavy mortar that threw a thirty five pound bomb about three and a half miles at roughly ten rounds a minute. German troops met it in 1941, took captured examples into ...

The U.S. Eighth Air Force launched its bombing campaign against Nazi Germany, one of the largest, most important and most devastating strategic initiatives in the annals of warfare, on this day in ...

The May 1943 secret operation by Britain's Bomber Command to destroy several German dams located in its industrial heartland, the Ruhr Area, was a groundbreaking mission. Not just because of the risk ...

Emil Schumacher, “Bombing Raid on a City” (“Bombenangriff auf eine Stadt”) (1946), woodcut, 30 × 42.7 cm (11 13/16 × 16 13/16 in.) (courtesy of Emil ...

THE United Nations will have to determine before long what controls are to be imposed upon German aeronautical activities under the terms of peace. The problems involved will not be wholly unfamiliar.