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 ...

COLUMBIA - Michele Spry and Ferrill Purdy's friendship began when Purdy went to get his wife's lamp fixed. Their chance encounter brought Purdy back together with his corsair plane from World War II.

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) - A World War II plane is back on dry land, after sitting at the bottom of Lake Michigan for nearly 70 years. The Birdcage Corsair plane was built in the 1930s, and crashed during ...

MACON, Ga. — On Sunday an old plane landed at Lowe's Aviation to surprise a veteran who hadn't seen one since the war. Grover Sassaman looks at a F4U Corsair plane for the first time since the 1940s. ...

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 ...

JEROME — A vintage aircraft didn’t quite make it off the runway at the Jerome County Airport on Tuesday morning. Jerome County Sheriff’s Office responded to the crash of the 1950s-era F4U Corsair with ...

STRATFORD -- The long-neglected Curtiss hangar at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, which has seen the likes of Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, may yet have its best days ahead. The reason is the ...

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 ...