Aircraft carriers were the backbone of naval air power during World War II. This footage shows the intense reality pilots faced as they returned from combat, including a dramatic crash landing as a ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

From the Me 262 to late-war Spitfires and Mustangs, this list ranks WWII’s quickest combat-ready aircraft by top speed and real-world impact—skipping pure prototypes and rocket interceptors—to ...

The Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first operational jet fighter, was developed under strict secrecy during the Second World War.

On November 2, 1943, during World War II, Major Raymond Wilkins led a daring low-level strike against the heavily fortified Japanese base at Rabaul. Flying a B-25 Mitchell already torn apart by ...

World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...

President Trump said Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's late supreme leader, would be an "unacceptable" successor.

Strategic bombing with conventional weapons, like the United States is doing in Iran, has never forced unconditional ...

As Route 66 nears its centennial, a new restaurant by chef Andrew Black aims to tell the story of the Oklahoma pilot behind ...

Addressing the war for the first time during a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday, Donald Trump claimed that Iran’s “pursuit ...

U.S. military officials released the names of four American soldiers killed in the war with Iran as the State Department ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...