U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

According to most historical records and accounts, World War II caused an estimated 70 to 85 million fatalities worldwide.

The fierce shark teeth on some warplanes have their roots in World Wars I and II, and they continue on today. Here's why ...

Not every plane was speedy, however. Some were slower but sturdier, able to withstand battle damage without going done. For ...

During World War II, the company that has grown to become an entertainment, theme-park and merchandising empire today created ...

Military honors for WWII veteran, Gilbert Nadeau, 98, were on Monday. The WWII Navy veteran survived kamikaze attacks in the ...

The Naval Aircraft Factory N3N was designed and built at roughly the same time as the Stearman PT-17, a more famous biplane ...

To determine the fastest American military planes from World War II, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed WW2 Aircraft Ranked-by-Speed, a ...

Not far from Cambridgeshire, an RAF base on the outskirts of Leighton Buzzard played a pivotal role in WW2 and the Cold War.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.