Few aircraft sounds are as recognizable as the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines that powered the legendary Lancaster bomber. When “Just Jane,” one of the few surviving examples, fires up its engines, the ...

The RFA Argus, a British casualty receiving ship, is slated for retirement, then scrapping—but the Royal Navy has repeatedly dragged its heels on sending the ship to its grave.

America certainly has its fair share of unusual burial places. At the Savannah/Hilton Head airport, a pair of graves on runway 10 are the only graves in the world that are part of an actively used ...

A rebuilt 1937 transmitter gave researchers a new lead that could finally reveal the location of Amelia Earhart’s missing ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

SEATTLE — More than 175 aircraft and spacecraft are housed at The Museum of Flight, but one plane’s history is being kept alive by a man who once flew it into combat. Ninety-one years after the Boeing ...

Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. The USS ...

Indonesia is embarking on a plan to make toll roads across the country into emergency runways for its fighter jets, giving it the equivalent of multiple aircraft carriers across the vast archipelago.

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains the massive U.S. military presence in the Middle East as President Trump amps up pressure on Iran over its nuclear program. Illustration: Ryan Trefes The Pentagon has ...

The U.S. is sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group already positioned in the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) area, as ...

WASHINGTON — The United States will send the world's largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East to back up another already there, a person familiar with the plans said Friday, putting more American ...

Thomas McGuire Jr. was chasing Dick Bong's record when his life was cut short several months before war's end.