If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in Second. Previously, air power primarily served to support the army and navy, ...

Gone were the days of stagnant trench warfare or where armies would line up to shoot directly into the ranks of one another with single shot rifles. Instead, World War II was much more mobile and ...

Wherever a tank could smash its way through, the infantry could follow in their sleds,” one World War II-era newsreel said ... Rocky fields or dug up trenches could snag them, even if a tank ...

(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...