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

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7, 1916.

Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories in defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...

The Fairey Battle, a British-built single-engine light bomber aircraft, was conceived by the Fairey Aircraft Company and ...

On November 20, 1941, the HMAS Sydney, a powerful Australian light cruiser ... champion running back to replace Najee Harris When Dive Bombers Sank Aircraft Carriers at Midway ...

It was a plan designed to fool Hitler's bombers - four pieces of land in north Staffordshire transformed to look like fake airfields, factories or burning towns. The aim? To trick the WW2 ...

When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.

The World War II flying uniform of a Townsville icon will proudly be on display for an Northern Legacy biannual fundraising ...