Acting Lieutenant-Commander Ernest 'Mick' Gidden spent six hours tackling the 1,000lb device, which landed on Hungerford ...

When it comes to World War II, there is no question that the United ... flanked by a series of lower-caliber guns and torpedo tubes. The USS Oregon (BB-3) Indiana-class ship was nearly scrapped ...

Bombers took on different roles during World War II, depending on size, but many were multi-role aircraft. True “heavies” ...

The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the Japanese mainland. When it comes to military aircraft manufacturing, Boeing is ...

Theodore Preston spent part of his weekend on a dreaded task that rolls around for nearly all adults every few years: getting ...

BMW is best known for cars, but during World War II, the company was tasked with making airplane engines for the German ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.

World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict ... in Papua New Guinea after suffering engine failure following a bombing raid against the Japanese. Less than a week earlier an American ...

sending all available aircraft to bomb and strafe Japanese forces, plus all three of his destroyers to slow down enemy forces with torpedoes and 5-inch guns. Many acts of heroism followed ...

The most favored weapons are launched from torpedo tubes. It’s not just torpedoes ... American submarines have operated off the Chinese coast since World War II when the Americans began mining the ...

Built in 1941, this bomb-proof U-boat ... by any government. 'Torpedo Junction' off the coast of North Carolina earned its name from the many attacks on Allied ships by German U-boats which took place ...