Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific.

In 1953, while deployed aboard USS ANTIETAM (CV 36), the squadron was renamed VF-84, and two years later, it became VA-86 “Sidewinders.” Between 1955 and 1987, the Sidewinders flew a variety ...

"The Skull and Crossbones first flew in January 1943 on the F4U Corsairs assigned to VF-17, the most lethal Navy fighter squadron of World War II," a Navy press release said. "By the end of the ...