The Grumman TBF Avenger was the heaviest single-engine aircraft of World War II, built for demanding naval missions. Designed ...

Explore the staggering development of the B-29 Superfortress, the most advanced heavy bomber of World War II, whose creation ...

The numbers associated with the 1942 Japanese attack on Darwin – and beyond – give some measure of the huge extent to which northern Australia was involved in World War II.

Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions ...

Heroes came in all colors. Beginning with the Civil War, Black men had joined, and been drafted into, the U.S. military.

The Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama delivers that exact rush, except you’re standing next to actual aircraft ...

The Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama offers a genuinely enriching experience that won’t require a passport or a lawyer. This museum punches way above its weight class, delivering an ...

The Coast Guard commissioned its newest Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC), USCGC Frederick Mann (WPC 1160), during a ceremony in Kodiak, Alaska, on Friday. The ceremony was presided over ...

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook was a heavy lift dual-rotor craft which in an emergency can be flown by one rotor. Powered by gas turbine engines, the Chinook made its maiden flight in 1961 and was ...