The Usa Naval Air Corps was established in 1939, and around 800 personnel were stationed at the base, which was centered in ...

The WWII-era Essex-class aircraft carriers were a pivotal development that served as a historic bridge to the modern carrier ...

Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and ...

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

Originally designed as a battleship, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kaga was later converted into a pioneering aircraft carrier that played a central role in shaping Japan’s naval air strategy.

In Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, remnants of destroyed U.S. warships, aircraft, a submarine and proud tributes to the more than 2,400 Americans, who perished in the devastating blitzkrieg attack by Japan’s ...

In the waning months of WWII, Japan’s military engineers embarked on an ambitious and innovative project to develop the country’s first jet-powered aircraft, the Nakajima Kikka. Officially ...

The City of Colorado Springs dedicated the I-25 bridge overpass on North Academy Boulevard to Daniel T. Griffin, the ...

The P-40 is an oft-forgotten aircraft of World War II, though it did much to hold the line in the Pacific Theater. It was the plane that flew against Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor and helped ...

Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles Woodruff McCook, a Georgetown native and Southwestern alumnus, was identified from remains in April over 80 years after his death.

Learn how American inventions that helped the Allies invade Normandy on D-Day gave way to equipment being used decades later ...