Explore the life and legacy of Phil Schlamberg, a Jewish-American fighter pilot who rose from humble beginnings to join the ...

A Phoenix man sought to honor his grandfather, a decorated World War II fighter pilot, after learning of his struggles with PTSD. Lt. Arthur Van Haren Jr., a Latino fighter ace, shot down nine enemy ...

Longtime Bakersfield resident Marci Lingo, who retired to Boise, Idaho, in 2014, is returning home next month to complete an unusual but loving task. She is burying her uncle, U.S. Army Air Forces ...

A WWII veteran is celebrating his 100th birthday this week! Clarence “Bill” Wenzel served in the Navy as a fighter pilot from 1944 to 1949. He flew a F6F Hellcat Fighter Plane, making 72 landings with ...

GREENVILLE — Army fighter pilot Lt. Morton “Mason” Sher wrote a letter to his family from his post in China on Aug. 19, 1943. For just over a year, the 22-year-old Greenville High School graduate had ...

In the early months of World War II, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero stunned Allied pilots with its range, agility, and dominance over the Pacific. Designed for carrier operations, it shattered assumptions ...

On March 3, 1945, James Huston Jr., a 21-year-old pilot from Pennsylvania, took off from the Navy escort carrier Natoma Bay on a mission to strike transport vessels and was shot down by the Japanese ...

Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group’s World War II combat pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen Inc. He was 100 years old. “His ...

(WSPA) — A Greenville fighter pilot who died while fighting in World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday. During the summer of 1943, U.S.