Escaping the festering hostilities in Germany against Jews in the 1930s, Rudy Pins kissed his father goodbye and boarded a train. Then 12 years old, Pins -- bound for a new life in the United ...

Operation Tiger, a little-known yet crucial precursor to the D-Day landings, was a massive Allied training exercise cloaked in secrecy, so significant that an entire English town was evacuated to ...

And because the lights caused no damage, the pilots doubted they came from remote-controlled German secret weapons. St. Elmo’s fire, a discharge of light from sharp objects in electrical fields ...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) also repelled the German fighters with the aid of a new, secret radar technology. First used by the RAF in 1940, the onboard aircraft interception radar (also known as A ...