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 ...

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

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!

JEROME, Idaho • Fewer than 40 of the 12,571 Corsair warplanes churned out in the U.S. during World War II and the Korean War are airworthy today. One sits in a hangar at Jerome County Airport, its ...

An historian who slowly became blind has managed to write a book about a World War II warplane and the Kiwis that flew them. Robert Montgomery has drawn on his lifelong fascination with aviation to ...

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 ...