An 18th-century naval gunpowder store in Purfleet is now packed floor-to-ceiling with military artefacts, local history and ...

Sir Barnes Wallis developed the bouncing bomb using marbles in a water tub A collection of personal items belonging to the inventor of the bouncing bomb have been sold at auction. The objects, which ...

While a quick online search may label Barnes Wallis merely as an engineer, this description hardly encapsulates his true impact and contributions. He was the mastermind behind some of the most ...

While a simple Google search might describe Barnes Wallis as an engineer, the label barely scratches the surface of what he actually was and what he brought to life. What many don’t realise is that he ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Divers have recovered two World War Two-era "bouncing bombs" from the bottom of a Scottish loch after a seven-year hunt aided by the British navy. The spherical Highball devices, ...

In your photo essay on AirVenture 2006 (AW&ST Aug. 21/28, p. 88), you say the Avro Lancaster carried Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs. You went on to say they were used to destroy the Ruhr dams. That is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A replica 'bouncing bomb' honouring the RAF Dambusters and their links to Derwent Dam has been donated to the famed 617 Squadron.

On the night of 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron lifted from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and flew low across the North Sea toward the industrial heartland of Germany. Their ...