Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down ... seemed just as much devoted to fighters as to dive bombers. John Arthur Leppla was born in Lima, Ohio, on May 7 ...

Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War II’s Pacific Theater was the Douglas ... were manufactured during the war and served as the U.S. Navy’s primary carrier-based scout/dive bomber ...

Explore the controversial legacy of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, often regarded as one of the most challenging dive bombers ever produced. Despite its troubled history, this aircraft played a pivotal ...

By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own ... One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one of the most flown ...

But the bold Argentine A-4 Skyhawks’ efforts were all for naught: Argentina surrendered to the British the following day.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...

The remains of the pilot of a downed World War II Army bomber ... the DPAA and the Navy conducted a five-week deepwater search of the site using a special diving bell, pressure chamber and a ...