“Younger kids growing up today have no idea what this country went through in World War II,” Edwin Cottrell said. That thinking is what pushed Cottrell to begin sharing his experiences as a World War ...

The radio at England's RAF Leiston shouldn't have been picking up anything. It should have been a dead frequency. Through the static, however, the American pilots of the 357th Fighter Group heard ...

In the decades following World War II, numerous fighter pilots have emerged from the record books to belatedly receive an honor long denied them: credit for downing five enemy aircraft and recognition ...

KERN COUNTY, Calif. – On Monday, the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Arthur M. Lingo of Fellows, California -who was killed ...

During World War II, Olympia served as a training base for the P-38 Lightning, a popular fighter aircraft. Though more than 10,000 Lightnings were built during the war, Olympic Airshow Director Teri ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

Robert L. Faurot, a talented college football player turned aviator, became a decorated World War II fighter pilot before ...

(AP) - Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one ...