The US aircraft formation could be one of the largest "elephant walks" ever in Japan, and featured fighters, drones, and ...

A vintage WW2-era aircraft operated by the Commemorative Air Force has flown from the US to the UK for a series of VE Day ...

Conversely, the tops of planes would often be painted green or brown, depending on the area in which they operated. That all ...

It wasn’t built to dominate the skies, but it did. Behind the modest design of this unassuming aircraft lies a lethal ...

A US aircraft carrier from World War II, which sunk to the bottom of the Pacific over 80 years ago, is now at the center of ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

The U.S. Navy dropped nuclear bombs on its own ships loaded with rats and other animals to see the effect of nuclear weapons ...

USS Yorktown (CV-5)—an aircraft carrier commissioned in September 1937 and sunk in October 1942—was equipped with 24 Oerlikon ...

A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to be used in a live-fire exercise off the western coast of the Philippines as part ...

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan ...

a United States Navy aircraft involved in several operations during the Second World War before it was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the Battle of Midway. The USS Yorktown was known to have ...