Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

Beechcraft, a renowned name in general aviation, is synonymous with engineering excellence and innovation. Among its wide ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...

A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

United Air Lines Flight 736, a DC-7 passenger plane carrying 47 people, had collided with an Air Force F-100F fighter jet ...

Among the first military aircraft to use the shark design were Germany's Roland C.II planes, which flew in 1916, a few years after the start of World War I. On the other side in the conflict ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...