Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

A WWII Corsair jet lands on the Intrepid for the first time, headlining a new permanent exhibit including rare crew-donated ...

Her resolve at such a young age was remarkable, even by modern standards, and in her lifetime she overcame discrimination and ...

Dressed in a period civilian flight instructor uniform, Chuck Workman of Lakewood, California, at right, watches a B-25 ...

In 1984, Pearce and his daughter wrote the song “We Love Allentown” in response to Billy Joel’s “Allentown.” It’s been ...

WELLSBURG — About 50 local Vietnam War veterans and their spouses accepted an invitation from Wellsburg Elks Lodge 1553 and ...

Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

For one local Southern Pines father and son, that history led them recently to the south of France for an event commemorating the end of World War II. Retired Lt. Col. Theodore C. Mataxis Jr. (Ted ...

After World War II broke out, Buck began training seaplane pilots. Some of the men went into the Army Air Force, and women could join the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Some of Buck’s ...

He enlisted in World War II during his senior year after turning ... the Flak Shak fell out of formation despite the best efforts of the pilot and copilot. Having descended on the plane from ...

Much of this content has nothing to do with DEI, like a photo of the famous WWII aircraft named "Enola Gay", according ... The plane was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, ...