Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in Second. Previously, air power primarily served to support the army and navy, ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

The U.S. Navy has used standard naming conventions for its ships and sumbarines since it was established in 1775, but who ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen, has died ...

Stewart was one of the last surviving combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The ...

From aircraft carriers to submarines, U.S. Navy service members faced the risk of asbestos exposure on virtually ... "The large group most threatened is the 4.5 million people who worked in World War ...

The videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) – the female World War II pilots who were ...

Here’s a look at how civilian and military aircraft work to avoid accidents like Wednesday’s tragic crash. “That would create some mayhem in the system,” said Brian Alexander, a former ...

As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s O Globo newspaper ... as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting ...