The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super ...

When the Second World War finally ended, a Martin B-26 Marauder, named Flak-Bait by its first commander, had flown and ...

On a sleepy Sunday morning in 1941, the Hawaiian island of Oahu couldn’t have looked anymore idyllic. Even with the fairly ...

In the leadup to World War II, many navies around the world ... carrier when she finally made it to the Pacific. The Shinano was a Japanese aircraft carrier that secretly began construction ...

An American aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea, and a Chinese "flattop" concluded a sea trial.

The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World ... because she was one of the capital ships that was lost during WWII," Vulcan spokesman Robert Kraft said. Pictures from the seabed ...

The aircraft, A9-497, was lost during a 1944 mission when it made an emergency water landing off the coast of Darwin.

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...

USS Abraham Lincoln: Eastern Pacific Ocean United States Navy ... conversion into the country's first aircraft carrier since World War II, arrived at Kure naval base in Hiroshima Prefecture ...