Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

The U.S. Navy commissioned ... 1945, the United States had sustained over 49,000 casualties, including more than 12,500 men killed or missing,” according to the National WWII Museum.

Sometimes - mostly low-flying aircraft like helicopters During World War II, it was common for aircraft to be painted to ...

The crash of a vintage biplane in a forested area of south-central Washington state left one person dead and another stranded ...

The USS United States (CVA-58) was an ambitious, post-WWII supercarrier project meant to lead a new class of carriers for the U.S. Navy ... including issues with radar placement and smoke ...

First, it meant the ship lacked a position for radar ... USS United States (CVA-58) was an ambitious, post-WWII supercarrier project meant to lead a new class of carriers for the U.S. Navy.

The Douglas F3D Skyknight was that one aircraft that usually always featured in the shadow of flashier planes, yet it played ...

But the Navy hasn’t placed an aircraft carrier in an existential situation in decades – not since World War II, really, when ...

The AIM-174B missile, onboard the US Navy's F-18 Super Hornet ... The strategy has its roots in World War II when Imperial Japan took over most of East Asia and attacked Pearl Harbour, effectively ...

On Sept. 11, Keil will finally return home. With family present, he will be buried in the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.

With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control ...