World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war for new modern dogfighters.

If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in Second. Previously, air power primarily served to support the army and navy, ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were Shostak’s. He was finally, as the news release from the Defense POW/MIA ...

The remains of a Massachusetts airman whose aircraft was shot down over Germany during World War II have been identified ... and the crew was reported missing in action.After the war, the United ...

Following 80 years missing in action, Chinese American veteran Yuen Hop has been accounted for and was laid to rest with full ...

A discovery by the Museum and National Trust has revealed that not only did the Falkland Islands donate Spitfires to the British war effort in World War II but also three aircraft to the Royal ...

5, he was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft as the second in a flight ... Downing as Killed in Action. He was later posthumously promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

It further participated in action in Palau ... The USS Enterprise was America’s most decorated ship in WWII. An aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, shot down 911 enemy aircraft and sank 71 ...