When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles to the U.S. winning World War II in the Pacific Theater. Research by his ...

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...

World War II dive bomber Sid Zimman, who lives in Oceanside, turned 100 on Thursday and shared what he calls his “adventures with the Marine Corps” some 80 years ago. Zimman fought the war in the ...

The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, lost at the Battle of Midway, has once again been glimpsed by human eyes. The once mighty aircraft carrier, a participant in the early naval battles of World War ...

Lady Lex had suffered grievous damage, but still managed to launch additional CAPs and recover all of its aircraft by 2 p.m. However, at noon, the fires started when leaking gas vapors caused a store ...

The tractor on the wreck of the USS Hornet. On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the ...