A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition ...
World War II saw the development of all manner of aircraft, some of which have become iconic. One such plane was the bizarre-looking Lockheed P-38 Lightning, which was a single-seat aircraft with a ...
This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Bong, who was known as the “Ace of Aces,” took down all 40 of those Japanese fighter planes while flying the same aircraft: a Lockheed P-38 Lightning ...
A recovery team tried to start this WWII aircraft after it had been frozen into a Greenland ice cap for nearly 50 years. Kee Bird was a World War II era B-29 bomber that spent decades frozen in the ...
Pictured in 2006, a North American P-51D Mustang is seen being pulled to a hangar. It is just one of the warplanes teased on the flyer for the AirPower History Tour of the Commemorative Air Force, ...