USS Yorktown (CV-5)—an aircraft carrier commissioned in September 1937 and sunk in October 1942—was equipped with 24 Oerlikon ...

A US aircraft carrier from World War II, which sunk to the bottom of the Pacific over 80 years ago, is now at the center of ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was 108.

The Guadalcanal campaign was one of the fiercest and longest battles in the Pacific, exacting heavy losses on both American and Japanese forces. Although the island seemed minor, its Henderson ...

A World War II-era plane is set to fly over a veteran’s funeral Saturday. Eighty years ago, elite paratroopers were leaping out of similar aircraft on a secret mission called Operation Firefly.

In commemoration of the ground-breaking Double Sunrise wartime flights, when Qantas first mooted the possibility of nonstop ...

The Compton resident was a member of the 'Triple Nickles,' a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America's ...

It was a top secret allied mission to cripple the Nazi war machine throughout Europe during World War 2 - so secret that not even the crew were told what they were embarking upon ...

The “ghost blimp” has never been explained. L-8 was repaired and returned to service before being sent back to Goodyear, ...