America Built 24 Essex-class Aircraft Carriers Fast. It Can’t Do Anything Like That Now -The Essex-class aircraft carriers ...

The open-cockpit biplane, known as the “Yellow Peril,” was originally used to train military pilots in the 1930s and 1940s.

As the Greatest Generation fades, the Fagen Fighters museum keeps its spirit alive with a display of the 'warbirds' that ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

Donald McPherson, believed to be the last surviving American World War II Navy fighter ace, has died at 103. He served as a naval aviator with VF-83 on the USS Essex in the Pacific Theater, achieving ...

Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive today. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan interviewed 106-year-old ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. There were few World War 2 fighters that could match the ...

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...

For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the traumatic realization that their loved ones were among the many still lost ...