Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

Missing in Action. Just six weeks before World War II would end, the news came to four U.S. service member Families via ...

RAAF aircraft disappeared in 1943 over the Aegean Sea and the discovery was made by Greek technical divers, ending decades of ...

Baltimore FW282, operated by RAAF's No 454 Squadron, was returning from a mission over the Aegean Sea when it was ambushed.

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...

The historic Grumman Plant 2 mural, painted in 1945 by noted muralist Victor White, was created for the lobby of the old ...

In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt Disney's company to develop an insignia for the military unit. What Disney devised was an image of Mickey Mouse riding a goose, with a Navy ...

For over 80 years, the family of Sgt. Frank J. Tedone, a Connecticut airman whose plane was shot down in World War II in 1943 ...