On March 18, 1945, the Douglas XTB2D-1 Skypirate took its maiden flight, showcasing its potential as a powerful carrier-based ...

Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

Ensign Gay was assigned to the Torpedo 8 Squadron aboard the USS Hornet. He piloted a Douglas TBD-1 Devastator. During the Battle of Midway, Gay was the first in his squadron to take off.

Meanwhile, hard on O’Hare’s heels in Lexington lore was a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless team ... located Shoho and dispatched 53 SBDs, 22 TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bombers and 18 F4F-3s to eliminate ...

Douglas Is Cancelled premieres Thursday, March 6 on BritBox. Making entertaining and illuminating television from spicy ingredients like cancel culture, the modern-day news media, and the court of ...

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report from the waste-focused Truman Committee and ...

Welcome back to daylight saving time. According to the Energy Policy Act, we won’t return to standard time until the first weekend of November. Interestingly, our friends and neighbors in ...