A mid-air collision that should have ended in disaster turned into one of WWII’s most bizarre aviation events. Two planes got ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

Peering out the hangar doors at the Chico Air Museum is a bright yellow 1943 Fairchild PT-26, the kind of plane that gave many Canadian and American pilots their first wings.

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...

Eight decades after World War II, the icy peaks of the Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh still hold secrets of wartime catastrophes. Explorers continue to look for the wreckage of hundreds of American ...

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that ... shooting down several Japanese planes. Miller was awarded ...

Investigators later located several aircraft parts at the ... along with those still missing from World War II, the accounting agency said. There are 71,988 American service members who remain ...

Working with the Jewish underground paramilitary, the Haganah, Schwimmer led a team of World War II veterans to break an American embargo and smuggle 125 military planes and more than 50,000 ...