America has no shortage of military museums spread across the country, but having one inside of a retired aircraft carrier is ...

Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...

World War II ended generations ago, yet many of its weapons are still firing in today’s conflicts. Heavy machine guns, ...

Ralph and two sisters survive.] I went to work on our farm at 4:30 a.m. on school days. I milked 10 cows by hand. I’d come ...

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

With the dawn of the jet era, Midway was not prepared, and its runways were too short to accommodate airliners powered by jet ...

Vicksburg is a river city. For 200 years, the ebb and flow of the waters of the Mississippi, Yazoo and Big Black rivers have ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

The United States Air Force maintains a complex network of installations designed to project air power and support global ...