Control of Midway island was part of the Japanese navy’s plan to dominate the Pacific. American codebreakers had other ideas.

How did radar play a crucial advantage for the Allied forces’ victory in WW2? AeroTime takes a look at how radar was deployed in aerial combats ...

Cold, rainy and snowy when not foggy, and always unpredictable, the Aleutians climate was a menace for both sides.

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle of Midway.

Researchers exploring the underwater wreck of an American aircraft carrier have discovered what's left of a wood-panelled ...

NOAA is asking for the public's help in identifying the car, which went down with the USS Yorktown during the 1942 Battle of Midway.

In central Oahu, the Aiea Loop Trail takes hikers along the Halawa Valley ridge and past a World War II crash site.

The Yorktown, which could hold up to 2,200 personnel and 90 aircraft, was part of several operations in World War II after it was commissioned in 1937. Damaged in the Battle of the Midway – a ...