The bomber aircraft never returned from a mission in 1943, with all four of its crew members killed in action.
America's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, faced two major incidents in the 1980s that nearly ended in disaster. In ...
Tragically, USS Bismarck Sea was the last American naval vessel lost in World War II. On February 21, 1945, the carrier was attacked by a swarm of Japanese aircraft off the coast of Iwo Jima.
A surviving ship from WWII that was used by both Allied and Axis forces in the Pacific and that was given a ceremonial burial ...
The transition from prop-driven aircraft to jet-propulsion was a somewhat long and drawn-out process. Learn more about how ...
World War II Staff Sgt. Ralph Bode, a tail gunner and native of Racine, was declared missing in action on Sept, 27, 1944.
The wreck of a long lost United States Navy destroyer - once dubbed 'the ghost ship of the Pacific' - has finally been found. USS Stewart (DD-224) was a Clemson-class destroyer that, incredibly ...
World War II was a turning point for naval ... this time at the Battle of Santa Crus Islands where the aircraft carrier took two bomb hits and lost another forty-four men. But the Japanese were ...
The aircraft carrier has been integral to US Naval strategy since World War II. Learn more about US carrier designations.
Red Hook, N.Y. — A Central New York man died in a plane crash Saturday while piloting a World War I replica plane, according ...
New Zealand’s Navy lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of Samoa on ...
Two World War II veterans, R.D. Lawrence and H.B. Evans, celebrated their 102nd birthdays together with lunch Friday, Sept.