In the late 1940s, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress crashed into Lake Mead during a classified postwar operation known as “Sun Tracker.” The mission was part of early Cold War research ...
In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, and it would go on to annihilate Japanese naval aviation. This is the story ...
In the dense forests of the Ardennes — where the harsh winter fighting shaped the Battle of the Bulge — relic hunters uncover helmets, ammunition, and gear left behind by American and German soldiers, ...
GREENVILLE — Army fighter pilot Lt. Morton “Mason” Sher wrote a letter to his family from his post in China on Aug. 19, 1943. For just over a year, the 22-year-old Greenville High School graduate had ...
The B-52 might not be retiring until the 1960s meaning it will likely set a new record for the longest in service US combat ...
Combat aircraft often take decades to design and are based on strategic assumptions that rarely align with actual future conflicts. Many Cold War interceptors designed for nuclear bomber threats ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.
IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing in 2003. The handwritten letter was inside the cover of a ...
A team of maritime and naval conservation organizations are embarking on a project to recover a World War II torpedo bomber ...
CASTROVILLE, Texas (WJW) – A World War II veteran celebrated his 101st birthday by returning to the skies in the same type of aircraft he flew over 80 years ago. Footage provided by Dream Flights in ...
Indonesian authorities have found the wreckage of a surveillance aircraft that went missing in South Sulawesi, but all 11 people on board are still unaccounted for. The ATR 42 turboprop, owned by ...
The B-52 enabled sustained global strike missions far from American shores without relying on nearby bases. The C-17 allowed forces to deploy rapidly and directly into distant theaters. This reduced ...