Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway and could help solve mysteries about the days ...

Eighty-one years after he was killed in action during World War II, Gerard J. Melofchik this month reached his final resting ...

The remains of World War II hero 1st Lt. Gerard Melofchik were laid to rest at Washington Crossing National Cemetery 80 years ...

During World War II, in July 1944, an American torpedo bomber embarked on a combat mission. It was shot down, and its three crew members were declared missing in action (MIA). Now CNN reports that the ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true during the Second World War with the Pacific Ocean being a veritable battlefield ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. When Gen. Dwight Eisenhower surveyed the beaches of ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

While the emergence of aircraft as a weapon of war occurred in WWI, creating such novel concepts of the dogfight and the flying ace, the technology of those planes was primitive, and their abilities ...