The Brown Bag Lecture Series will explore “Neighbors in Conflict: Civilian Participation through Nebraska’s World War II Army Airfields.” It's at noon June 12 at the Kearney library.

Military labs identify long-fallen soldiers 02:54. Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.

The soldiers spent months behind enemy lines, marching hundreds of miles through the tangled jungles and steep mountains of Burma as they battled hunger and disease between firefights with Japanese ...

A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident ...

Kate Orchard, who has died just short of her 103rd birthday, worked for the RAF in India during the Second World War. ... e build-up of forces for Burma and in range of Japanese bombers.

Abandoned airfields. The military airfields that were abandoned in the 1940s and 1950s were shaped by one of the most pivotal events of modern history: the second world war.