On Oct. 12, 1942, as World War II raged on, student pilots began training at the Walnut Ridge Army Flying School. More than 5 ...
Japan secretly built the largest submarine of World War II, designed to carry aircraft across vast oceans. This video tells ...
Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...
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The WW2 propeller plane that outlived most jet aircraft

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider, introduced at the end of World War II, became one of the longest-serving propeller-driven combat ...
World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...
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 ...
Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...
A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...
Adm. William Furlong was a U.S. Navy rear admiral during World War II and served as Chief of Naval Ordnance from 1937 to 1941 ...
Pearl Harbor’s 84th Anniversary commemoration, themed “Building Pathways to Peace," reflects on the 1941 attack that launched ...
Murfreesboro WWII veteran John Carroll celebrates his 101st birthday, sharing his secrets to longevity and stories from his ...
“Here on Ford Island, in the heart of Pearl Harbor, the Museum is the guardian of the history of America’s World War II aviation battlefield,” said Museum Board Chair Gen. Raymond E. Johns (USAF ret.) ...