Five weeks after taking his wedding vows, Navy pilot Loren Isley was at war with Japan — a 21-year-old Missourian on March 18, 1945 — making what would be his final mission off the vast USS Intrepid ...

On June 12, 1943, the F4U-1 Corsair fighter crashed into the lake near Waukegan during practice landings and takeoffs from the USS Wolverine. The pilot, Carl Harold Johnson, survived the crash but was ...

Ater nearby three years of restoration, the Planes of Fame Air Museum's Vought F4U-1A Corsair reemerges as the world's oldest airworthy F4U Corsair!

NEW YORK -- The Intrepid Museum is debuting a new permanent exhibit about a World War II fighter bomber. The aircraft was shot down into the Pacific Ocean after it was ordered to strike a naval base ...

Join Airbase Georgia on Nov. 8 for its open house honoring Veterans Day and the 80th anniversary of WWII's end, with WWII aircraft flights and restoration tours.

There are several examples of combat aircraft that were born with the aim to serve in two or three different services of the same nation in aviation history. Usually, these programs face many problems ...

Fighter planes get all the love. There's not much argument about that. Most people will tell you that World War Two's greatest American navy aircraft was the F6F Hellcat or the F4-U Corsair. But what ...

The sound is so distinct it's almost foreign, but to a dwindling population, it represents far more. Seven decades ago, the sound was common over the skies of France, Belgium, Germany and Holland.