Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...

WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. — At Moton Field, the same airstrip where the legendary Tuskegee Airmen trained during World War II, a new chapter of aviation history has taken flight. For the first time in nearly 80 ...

More than 175 aircraft and spacecraft are housed at The Museum of Flight, but one plane’s history is being kept alive by a man who once flew it into combat.Nine ...

Maj. John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of the war. He became an advocate for the 100th Bomb Group's history. By ...

ADAMS, Nebraska (AP) — A World War II veteran from Nebraska believed to be America's last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy planes has died at age 103. Donald McPherson served as a ...

On December 13, 1943, a single American P-40 fighter rose alone to meet a formation of 64 Japanese aircraft over India.

He's spent thousands of hours in scores of aircraft during his 91 years on Earth, but Jule Lamm has never been as excited for a flight as he is for the one he'll take Sunday. A longtime Santa Monica ...

(WSPA) — A Greenville fighter pilot who died while fighting in World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday. During the summer of 1943, U.S.

The remains of a Georgetown native and a Southwestern University alumnus have been identified over 80 years after being declared missing in action during World War II. Charles Woodruff McCook, an Army ...

Herman Spoede never returned from a flight 68 years ago. Aug. 1, 2011— -- Lt. John Ramsay was an intelligence officer with a love of painting during World War II. He was sketching a Corsair plane ...