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 ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

When you think of Second World War fighters, the sleekly compact Spitfire and petite Zero come to mind. But some of the war's most awe-inspiring machines were vast, often ugly, flying juggernauts of ...

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor gravely damaged the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's strength, but fortunately, no American aircraft carriers were sunk in the attack. As a result, when the United States ...

On June 8, , just four days after the evacuation of , the United Kingdom's Royal Navy suffered its worst loss of World War when its HMS Glorious aircraft carrier and two destroyer escorts, the HMS ...