Returning to an aircraft carrier was never easy during World War II, especially for pilots flying damaged aircraft after ...

In a war where many Japanese aircraft were fast but fragile, the Mitsubishi Ki-51 stood out as a rugged, dependable workhorse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: VanderWolf Images / Shutterstock. World War II aircraft were built for urgent problems, not museum floors. They had ...

World War II made one thing clear: control of the seas could decide the fate of nations. Although battleships had long defined naval dominance, the conflict proved that aircraft carriers and ...

A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition ...

Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as dominant naval power during WWII by striking targets hundreds of miles beyond visual range. Submarines waged economic warfare targeting supply lines. German U ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This was an inglorious fate for a ship launched with fanfare in 1938 and hailed as the pride of the Nazi regime’s navy, the ...

World War II was the biggest conflict in human history, and it saw the development of numerous types of planes on all sides. While there were many iconic WWII fighter aircraft, one that often stands ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — A soldier plants his boot in the sand. The infantryman is a bronze sculpture. The sand, though, is authentic, straight from the beach that the U.S. Army’s 4th Division stormed ...