In the winter of 1944, four German paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor broke free from a POW camp in the French port of ...

Germany has ordered the Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) Joint Strike Missile (JSM) to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin ...

For a company that started out in a shed converting surplus US Army engines to power bicycles, Honda has certainly grown. Yesterday it launched and recovered its own rocket, programming the craft ...

That is, if they made it ashore at all. Many men drowned when their landing craft were swamped by seawater in the choppy English Channel. Weighed down by a hundred pounds of gear strapped to their ...

I’m not sure yet how I got out after I was hit.” Troops from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles aboard a wooden landing craft carrying about 35 men, heads towards Juno Beach on D-Day June 6, 1944.

The planned landing site was Mare Frigoris, a plain about 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the moon's north pole. Lunar landings remain challenging due to the moon’s rugged terrain.

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

A Ryanair passenger jet stands on the apron at Memmingen Airport, southern Germany, after turbulence forced the plane to make an emergency landing (Jason Tschepljakow/dpa via AP) Severe storms in ...

The flight from Berlin landed safely in Memmingen, about 115 km (70 miles) west of Munich, after bad weather prompted the pilot to initiate the emergency landing, Bavaria police said in a statement.

A Milan-bound Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Germany late on Wednesday due to heavy turbulence from a thunderstorm, with nine passengers injured, police said ...