While fighter jets didn't clash directly in WWII, they were coming into service by the end of the conflict, and the jet ...
Keegan Chetwynd, director and CEO of the Military Aviation Museum, home to one of the world's largest collections of flying ...
Mary Webb Nicholson died when the aircraft she was delivering to RAF Ternhill crashed in Littleworth, Worcestershire, on 22 May 1943. Historian Geoff Hudson said she was "a rock star" - the only ...
The flights lasted around half an hour, arriving and departing from DFW, which is the world’s third-busiest airport. Both ...
"One night in October, 1943, he piloted an aircraft detailed to attack Leipzig. "On the outward flight violent electrical storms were encountered. Although the air speed indicator became useless ...
Thanks to "Star Trek," the most well ... That vessel, designated CV-6, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier that served with ...
Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system almost didn't get built because some IDF brass feared it would instill a defensive ...
The Nimitz is the first of the class of 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers based on the same design. It’s named after former five-star admiral Chester Nimitz, a Navy leader in World War II.
With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control ...
World War II veteran George Waters, 102, holds a service photo of himself alongside one of fellow World War II veteran Bob ...
The USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) was commissioned on Saturday, with one of the two ship sponsors being Richard’s ...
during WWII. Lee was born in Portland, Oregon, to Chinese immigrant parents in 1912. She became enamored by barnstorming aircraft as a teenager and by the exploits of female aviators like Amelia ...