CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Tuskegee Airmen were remembered and celebrated Tuesday in Chicago. The airmen played a pivotal role in World War II as America's first Black air squadron. And their contributions ...
The 26-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant, Eugene J. Darrigan — a World War II airman who was a resident of the ...
No one was going to keep young Duane Tunnyhill from fighting in World War II, wearing the uniform of the United States Marines. But the Omaha lad had a big problem. Even after his 17th birthday ...
The occupation of Poland may have turned out to be the last hurrah of Polish warplanes during WWII, but not the Polish combat pilots, more specifically the ones that escaped into exile in Great ...
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Nathan Sawyer’s article reads like a scene from Top Gun or Star Wars. Crews are awakened at 3 a.m. by a tactical action officer’s call for launch. They rush to complete ...
The SBD will join Fagen Fighters' growing collection of Navy aircraft, which includes an SB2C Helldiver, F6F Hellcat, FM-2 ...
For the first time in nearly 80 years, a French fighter jet has confirmed an aerial victory. A high-stakes encounter over the Red Sea saw a Mirage 2000-5F engage an unexpected threat. Details remained ...
One expert speculated that such heavy military hardware would be needed if the US carried out a strike against Iran or its ...
Capt. G A Fernando [email protected] Former President, Aircraft Owners and Operators Association, Sri Lanka The HS 125 was designed and built in 1962 as the de Havilland 125 (DH 125) and later by the ...
Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers ...
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, ...
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 ...