When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...

Ernest Pugh went off to war in 1942. The plane he flew hadn’t been seen in 80 years … until it was found on the top of a mountain Papua New Guinea.

During the First World War, fears about advancing technology sparked stories of mysterious "Foo Fighters" and the so-called Airship Scare, as people imagined German airships devastating cities. This ...

Built like a tank but agile as a falcon, the twin-engined Bristol Beaufighter was full of contradictions, earning it a ...

On September 2, 1945, the Second World War ended when Japan officially surrendered. Today, on the 80th anniversary, the ...

A relative of a B-29 U.S. bomber co-pilot who died in a crash on a mountain here shortly after the end of the Pacific War ...

Screaming fighter jets, agile helicopters and maneuvering parachutists all provided a show in the skies above the 2025 ...

As he moved into his 90s, Al Habhab would confide to close friends that he already had made plans to celebrate his 100th ...

On September 2, 1945, the second world war ended when Japan officially surrendered . Today, on the 80th anniversary, the physical legacy of the ...

The National Archives has recovered the volume, which includes more than 500 pages of data from March 1941 to June 1942. It ...

The lean, bespectacled veteran from Kentucky sat silently in the early evening of Aug. 14 on a stage in the cavernous U.S. Freedom Pavilion in the National WWII Museum. With vintage war planes hanging ...