On March 18, 1945, the Douglas XTB2D-1 Skypirate took its maiden flight, showcasing its potential as a powerful carrier-based ...

The Helldiver’s poor manufacturing was a superficial problem relative to its fundamentally flawed design. The aircraft was ...

The Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will offer warbird rides in a World War II TBM Avenger torpedo bomber at Raleigh Executive Jetport on Wednesday, April 16. The TBM Avenger is the ...

From dogfights to epic bombing runs, these 10 military aviation films soar with real aircraft that bring authentic air power ...

John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became ...

"He was a legend." Maj. Billy Hall joined the Marine Corps at the tender age of 15, survived hundreds of combat missions, and was awarded a Bronze Star. Hall died at the age of 98 in December.

Once the Imperial Japanese Navy’s largest base in the central Pacific, the Chuuk islands are now an untouched wonderland ripe ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

Nearly 200 Indians have been rescued from a notorious cybercrime hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy region. They share with TOI their ...

Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La., at the age of 102.

AOM 3/C Claude L. Piper, who died on March 2, 1945, has a cenotaph marker at Saint Patrick’s Cemetery in Benton.

The TBM Avenger is the largest and heaviest single-engine bomber of World War II, according to Pete Ballard, the Capital Wing ...