WWII pilot PJ Dahl reflects on flying the P-38 Lightning and his confidence as an ace in combat.

U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Franklin H. McKinney disappeared after leaving China for a spy mission over Thailand in November 1944.

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

LUBBOCK, Texas—”From a Grateful Nation: Honoring the American WWII Glider Pilot” exhibit now open at the Silent Wings Museum ...

On May 12, 1944, Luftwaffe ace Gunther Rall, in a dogfight over Germany with American fighter pilots, had already shot down two P-47 Thunderbolts. Rall suddenly discovered that he was targeted by four ...

Before the eponymous rock band fronted by Dave Grohl ever existed, the term "foo fighters" was used to refer to something much more unsettling. Mysterious orbs of light would materialize before the ...

A young World War II pilot who disappeared during a flight in 1944 has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.

ASHBURN, Va. — More than 80 years after an American fighter pilot was killed in the Pacific during World War II, he will receive a proper burial in his hometown of Jackson, Minnesota. One of his ...

The remains of a U.S. pilot who went missing during a World War II mission have been found, more than 80 years after his plane went down in Southeast Asia. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Franklin H.

The wedding ring of a British airman who disappeared during World War II was returned to his family Monday 70 years after his plane crashed in the mountains of Albania. Aeronautical engineer John ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Navy pilot who was born in South Dakota was buried in Minnesota on Wednesday more than 80 years after he was presumed dead from a World War II battle. Thomas Ruth. Photo ...

More than 80 years after he took off from an airfield in China, a US Army Air Force pilot is going home. The route back to ...