Summary and What You Need to Know: During World War II, aircraft carriers revolutionized naval warfare, and several stood out ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

And of all the aircraft carriers that served in World War II, one stands apart, for having the most decorated service record: ...

Japan's destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier recently concluded sea trials off California that put Lockheed's F-35B to the test.

Crosley-produced proximity fuses were the first deployed to enemy lines and responsible for the first kill of an enemy aircraft. The world's first smart bomb, produced here in Cincinnati, turned the ...

Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied ...

A U.S. aircraft carrier will soon arrive at a naval base in Japan for forward deployment in the Western Pacific Ocean.

Two vintage World War Two-era planes have collided and crashed at an air show in the US state of Texas, killing six people. Footage shows the aircraft striking each other at a low altitude ...

Peter Ferdinand Jr. will tell of his father’s survival in a World War II plane crash during a veteran’s program at the ...

B-29 Doc, one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortress aircraft built by the Boeing Company in Wichita, Kansas, during World War II, is one of only ... was updated to add new photos.) ...

Wallace Grove and Jack Talan recall the pain, pride and, for Talan, prejudice they experienced during the Second World War.