However, whilst so many of its fellow carnivorous fish had submarines named in their honor—including the USS Wahoo (whose own ...

The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

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

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

A WW2 Baltimore attack bomber aircraft wreck belonging to the Royal Australian Air Force was discovered off the coast of ...

With the world at war, each country ... supersonic speeds. WWII planes have propellors on the front and cannot go nearly as ...

References to the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan during World War II have been flagged for removal in Pentagon documents as the Department of Defense purges references ...

A Rolls-Royce Merlin engine from a World War Two RAF Mosquito is being restored for ... which excelled as a spyplane. One particular plane - Havilland Mosquito LR412 - flew 51 flights with 19 ...

It ultimately helped the Allies claim victory on the Eastern Front. One of the most sinister aircraft of World War II, the Junkers Ju 87, was a dive bomber notable for its shallow V-shaped wings ...

The groundbreaking original design meant the plane could be upgraded with new engines and armaments. The Spitfire played its part in many of the crucial battles of World War Two, giving the RAF a ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

The war was fought, of course, on the land, sea and in the air. And it's this last one that we're focusing on, in this clip from Andrew Marr. Here we find out how the RAF's tactics involved using ...