America's military services are not exactly known for frugal procurement, but the problems ballooned when the Navy set out to ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea. USS ...

The commanding officer of the USS Gettysburg -- the Navy ship whose crew shot down one of its own fighter jets in the Red Sea ...

U.S. military aircraft were spotted landing at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday ahead of a funeral for a “true ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

He was deployed to Southeast Asia with CVW-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga in 1966 until he was shot down and forced to eject over North Vietnam. He was taken as a Prisoner of War ...

He was a lieutenant commander attached to the USS Ticonderoga/Air Wing 19/Attack Squadron VA-192 during the Vietnam War. He was forced to eject from his Skyhawk fighter-bomber over North Vietnam ...

Stratton, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 93, was a Quincy native and one of the longest-serving POWs of the Vietnam war.

Fitzgerald researched Stratton's life for the city when a street was named in honor of him. He said that Stratton was born and raised in North Quincy, where he grew up on Bowdoin Street, attended ...