Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...

Following the conclusion of World War II ... jet fighter took its first flight in 1951, and was built for the purposes of answering U.S. Navy requests for short-range interceptor aircraft.

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter ... during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John "Paddy" Hemmingway on X on Monday night, the ...

The Night Witches used the Polikarpov ... the only two women in history to become fighter pilot aces. For part III, we’ll stick with the WWII Soviet Air Force, only this time we’re not ...

He became one of the brave RAF pilots who helped bring an end to WW2 when they flew over ... but his Hurricane fighter was hit by anti-aircraft fire and he had to make a forced landing.

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to Mr Hemingway, saying his courage and those of all RAF pilots had "helped end WWII ... aircraft during an 11-day period in May 1940, and provided ...