By the end of World War II, the U.S.'s aerial fleet consisted of 80,000 aircraft. (These airplanes helped American win WWII.) To determine the fastest American military planes from World War II ...

The United States entered the Second World War with a rather potent naval force. However, by the time of the war's end in 1945, it was the finest and most powerful navy to ever exist. Today, we're ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

These pictures show French military divers from the FS Pluton M622 navy de-mining ship, swimming above the wreck of a USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt US fighter plane, which crashed in 1944. The DPAA's ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Loring E. Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission to Dülmen, Germany, in March of 1945 when the aircraft was hit by heavy fire ...

A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training ...

Following World War II, US junkyards and surplus stores were filled ... Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range.