Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

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

Two American veterans of World War II who fought to free the Philippines in 1945 are headed back to help mark the 80th ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

During WWII and before, most of these items were ... While there are dozens of these types of military transport aircraft, the five detailed here are the biggest of them all, and it's unlikely ...

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, ...

The name honored the president slain five years before, who had served as a naval officer during World War II ... A Navy tradition dating back to the 1960s, crews aboard Navy aircraft carriers ...

There must be something in Mary Waddington’s genes. The longtime Michigan Avenue resident will turn 100 years old on Monday and she’s not the only one in her family who has reached the milestone. Her ...

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

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen, has died ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its final journey to be dismantled earlier this week. The Kennedy was moored at the Navy's Inactive Ships ... who had served as a naval ...