USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, fought in battles across the Pacific Theater, including at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It suffered heavy casualties during the invasion of Okinawa ...

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 ...

The decades-long mystery of a missing World War II RAAF crew has finally been solved, with their aircraft’s wreckage found in ...

In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane had evolved from a rickety DIY creation to ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A famous piece of history is now on display at the USS Midway Museum. An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, is in San Diego ...

Motivated by his childhood intrigue, a young Gozitan engineer named Matthew Curmi, 24, has authored a book on aircraft losses in Gozo during the Second World War. His book reveals unique insights into ...

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...

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Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true during the Second World War with the Pacific Ocean being a veritable battlefield ...

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