Nikolai Shishkin was 19 years old when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. In 1940, after finishing school, he was called up for military service. He graduated from aviation school and was ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the ...

As a fighter pilot in World War II, Quentin C. Aanenson fought a very dangerous war. He first saw combat on D-Day, and in the ensuing year, he dive-bombed and strafed tanks, bridges and German ...

The F-35 Lightning II, the primary fighter jet of the U.S. military and its allies, can scream through the sky at up to Mach 1.6, or 1,200 miles per hour. It is literally impossible for today's pilots ...

Maj. John H. "Lucky" Luckadoo, a Chattanooga native and the last surviving WWII B-17 Flying Fortress pilot of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force's legendary 100th Bomb Group, will return to his hometown ...