His courage in battle brought him the Congressional Gold Medal, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the ...
According to The Museum of Aviation, the B-29 was designed by the manufacturer as a high-altitude strategic bomber, one which ...
The Naval History and Heritage Command remarks, “The F6F accounted for 5,223 enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat, the ...
We face a year of hard work, sweet and sorrowful, with an ever-growing task before us,” but are “resolved that we will do our ...
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The Pacific air war claimed many lives, but the story of a gunner buried at sea within his aircraft is truly one of a kind. Explore this tragic yet deeply respectful chapter of WWII history.
A Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval ...
China sent all of its operational aircraft carriers to sea, while a U.S. "flattop" remained in the Philippine Sea.
Warren Upton was 22 years old and serving as a radioman aboard USS Utah when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.