"That was the only time in my life he ever gave any real details, and I was in my 40s and had already done eight years of ...

TV host Pat Pattison has filmed 30+ episodes from one big roadtrip through the Golden State. One on SoCal's ties to World War ...

In the midst of World War II, moments of compassion and mercy are rare, especially in the brutal reality of aerial combat.

Shot down in WWII, Lt. Stuart Cooper gave his last words: “Go ahead, don’t wait for us.” His sacrifice is now remembered.

As the World War II bomber "Heaven Can Wait" was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...

Posted: May 19, 2025 | Last updated: May 19, 2025 After the Pearl Harbor attack, one Japanese pilot crash-landed on an island he thought was empty—he was wrong. This is what happened next.

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan, quoting defense officials in deep background, have said the country ...

Gwenda Moulton, aged just 19, sat with six other young women in their green uniforms in the small room she knew only as “Y Hut”, located at HMAS Harman outside Canberra. It was 1942, and as a ...

As a gunner, he was a prime target for Japanese kamikaze pilots, who purposefully crashed their planes into Allied navy ships. In 1945, Robinson’s crew joined 1,600 other U.S. naval ships off ...

By AUDREY McAVOY and MARI YAMAGUCHI PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Batt… ...

Some 4,000 pilots died on suicide missions, about 2,500 navy and more than 1,400 army, most of them university students drafted in late 1943.