The Royal Air Force initially ordered 675 P-39s ... ultimately handicapping its ability to operate at higher altitudes.

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

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women ...

Enola Gay was the name of the B-29 aircraft that dropped the world's first atomic bomb used in war on Hiroshima, Japan, ...

The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits ... − a paramilitary aviation organization of female pilots employed to fly during World War II − was also pulled from basic training ...

GIVEN the nature of warfare in urban environments and the limitations of past technologies, it is regrettably inevitable that ...

The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Francis E. Callahan, who was killed during World War II, will be interred Monday at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Callahan, a native of ...

A 2019 discovery by Danish divers found the wreck in the depth of the Baltic Sea, leading excavators to later pull evidence and human remains. This led to the identification of Lt. Robert T. McCollum ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ...

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force recently finished renovations on its exhibit that showcases the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots organization.

Celebrations to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War will be held over four days, with school children able to ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...