The Bell P-59 Airacomet, America’s first jet fighter, debuted in 1942 but didn’t see combat due to its limited speed and ...

World War II pilot and longtime owner of L.P. Athol Corp., Vincent “Bill” J. Purple died in his Petersham home. He was 100.

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...

Thousands died during World War II when British war planes mistakenly struck a Nazi ship packed with concentration camp ...

The N3N was a training aircraft used primarily by the U.S. Navy starting in 1935. A total of 997 aircraft of this model were ...

Many people believe the Blue Angels first took off at NAS Jax, but actually the World War II pilots started their ... Cove Springs and I guess the most famous flight instructor was Ed McMahon ...

As for Howland Island, it was attacked by the Japanese on December 8, 1941, the day after the famous attack on Pearl Harbor.

What characteristics define the best World War II movies? Is it the intensity and ... this eponymous movie tells the fictitious story of pilot Lt. Col. Daniel Kiley, played by Henry Fonda.

Lander Vietnam veteran Andy Gramlich knew his dad as an angry man who drank. It wasn’t until decades after the fact he found ...

What major event happened at Whanganui Airport 70 years ago — on November 1, 1954? 2. When Sir Charles Kingsford Smith ...

Veil and his good friend Treven Iverson, of Jamestown, flew supplies down on Oct. 4, initially to Mountain City, Tennessee, ...