This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier
With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...
Remains of WWII bomber pilot, lost in the Pacific in ’44, are identified
The remains of the pilot of a downed World War II Army bomber that was the subject of a pioneering ... In early 2023, the DPAA and the Navy conducted a five-week deepwater search of the site using a ...
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Longtime fighter pilot assumes command of USS Eisenhower
A Navy fighter pilot with more than two decades of service is the new commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D ...
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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the ...
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Airman's Remains Recovered From WWII Bomber
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...
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Divers’ discovery of World War II plane crash leads to ID of US soldier, officials say
A 2019 discovery by Danish divers found the wreck in the depth of the Baltic Sea, leading excavators to later pull evidence ...
WWII soldier from Cleveland identified 80 years after crash
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum, 22, killed when his bomber crashed during World War II, were ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and declared Missing in Action. (U.S. Navy/National ...