OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - A classic plane will make its AirVenture debut next week: the German ME 262, the first jet fighter plane in the world. It hit the skies late in World War II, too late to reverse ...

Suicide Jockeys: The Making of the WWII Combat Pilot by Monique Taylor sheds light on the overlooked story of U.S. glider ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.

William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...

TOKYO — A former Japanese army pilot who helped train the infamous kamikaze — flyers who deliberately crashed into their targets — is still telling his story 80 years after the end of World War II, in ...

An estimated 405,399 American service members died in World War II, including more than 250 military personnel from Butte. Among Butte’s dead was 2nd Lt. Holsey C. Johnson, a fighter pilot who was ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed ...

"World News Tonight" anchor David Muir reported on a remarkable moment as a 100-year-old World War II fighter pilot returned to the skies over McKinleyville, California, taking the controls of the ...

A Jewish American fighter pilot shot down over China in World War II finally received a proper burial in South Carolina recently, after his remains were identified more than eighty years later, ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly ...