The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in 1939. However, at this ...

Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...

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 ...

The last time anyone saw three newly-rediscovered military aircraft, U.S. forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II."Operation Hailstone" in February 1944 was a ...

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

America is known as the world’s greatest aircraft carrier superpower. No other nation comes close to its carrier capabilities, although China is simultaneously trying to catch up as well as degrade ...

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 ...

The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it was ...

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

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 ...