The de Havilland Vampire fighter jet successfully landed on the HMS Ocean aircraft carrier in945. See photos of the historic ...

World War II saw a great deal of innovation in the area of fighter aircraft design and construction, as it was the conflict that gave birth to the jet fighter. More than that, multiple nations ...

Fighter jets first took to the skies during World War II, and planes from that era include ... Although we selected the following five aircraft solely based on their outward appearance, we ...

The De Havilland Aircraft Company is one of the most storied names in aviation history, with contributions that reshaped ...

The U.S. sent one of its 11 aircraft carriers to the Philippine Sea, while another was at Yokosuka naval base in Japan.

a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in World War II and the Korean War, is in San Diego on a long-term loan from the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. The 78-year-old aircraft was lifted ...

P-61 Black Widow: Best WWII Fighter to Ever Fly ... and also was the aircraft that scored the final two aerial "kills" of World War II. One was on the last night of the war, while another was ...

The Marine Corps has reactivated a fighter squadron with a lineage that traces back to Guadalcanal during World War II.

Essex-Class Carriers: The Unsung Heroes of World War II Today, the United States Navy operates ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. But during the Second World War, the United States began ...