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 ...

USS Hornet sank in 1942 in key World War II battle Deep in the South Pacific Ocean, researchers have located the final resting place of the USS Hornet, the World War II aircraft carrier sunk in a 1942 ...

Few vessels defined the Second World War as aircraft carriers. What was once a niche vessel became a lynchpin for any modern naval force. America’s WW2 aircraft carriers were a cut above the rest ...

Allied ingenuity produced a number of great fighter aircraft that would prove instrumental in their victory in World War 2 The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning were each capable ...