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  Seven Dead As World War II Plane Crashes In US: Reports

  At least seven people were killed when a World War II bomber carrying 13 passengers and crew crashed at an airport in the northeastern US state of Connecticut Wednesday, local media reported.

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  Two World War II Aircraft Missing For 70 Years Found Under Water

  During World War II, some 10,000 B-25 bombers were deployed to conduct a variety of missions such as bombing, submarine patrols, and even the historic raid over Tokyo in April 1942. Many of them went down in the oceans across the world. Present-day Papua New Guinea was the site of military action in the Pacific Ocean from January 1942 to the end of...

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  London's Piccadilly Circus Lights Go Off For Longest Since World War Two

  For the first time since World War Two, the giant illuminated billboards that have lit up London's Piccadilly Circus for over 100 years have been switched off for an extended period, as work starts to replace them.

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  Islamic State Bombers Already in Britain, Ready for Lone-Wolf Attacks

  Islamic State bombers are in Britain and are ready to carry out lone-wolf attacks with World War II victory commemorations involving the Queen and the royal family being among the targets, according to a media report.

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  Dambusters Pilot Halts Medal Sale After Peer's Donation

  The last surviving pilot from World War II's legendary Dambusters mission cancelled plans to sell his medals today after a wealthy British peer intervened, the auction house handling the sale said.

• World War II Memories Take Flight in Surviving B-17 Bombers

  With a steady hand, pilot John Bode pushes the big red throttles forward. Four radial engines roar in unison, and a living piece of World War II history takes flight.

• Ex-US Prisoners Of War Visit Japan, Recall Horrors of War

  The prisoners of war held in Tokyo's Omori POW camp saw some of the most horrific destruction during the last months of World War II, as American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs that obliterated much of the city.

• Records, Photos of Famed US World War II Bombers Go Online

  Thousands of feet above the Pacific Ocean during World War II, the bullets were coming fast and the flak was flying. Japanese fighter planes whizzed around like bees as the American forces in their lumbering B-24 bombers tried everything to reach their targets, save fuel and stay airborne for the long trip home.

• German World War II era bomber recovered from under sea

  Experts from the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum had spent five weeks preparing to lift the aircraft, which is believed to be the only Dornier Do-17 bomber plane left from the war.

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  Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks to reunite for their third World War II project

  The untitled project will use historian Donald L Miller's non-fiction tome Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany as its source material.

• Vintage World War II plane catches fire, 7 onboard escape unhurt

  A World War II bomber made what appeared to be an emergency landing in a cornfield on Monday and all seven people on board escaped before it was consumed by fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration."The plane departed the airport, noted an emergency and the pilot made what appears to be an emergency landing, after which the plane was ...