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

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

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 ...

A U.S. pilot who was long considered missing in action after a failed World War II mission has been found ... the war accounting agency sent the U.S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit to confirm ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...

A 2019 discovery by Danish divers found the wreck in the depth of the Baltic Sea, leading excavators to later pull evidence ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lt. Cmdr. John Tortorich, a pilot in the US Navy. It has been edited for length and clarity. The Naval Academy wasn't on my radar in high ...

U.S. Navy pilots perform challenging missions like these daily in service of their country. Pilots serving in the Navy enjoy a wide variety of opportunities, ranging from flying antisubmarine ...

About 66,000 U.S. veterans of WWII are still living ... dubbed Operation Pacific Tribute. Oury and former Navy pilot Scott Seeberger raised money for the trip after being involved in a similar ...

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 ...