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USMC F/A-18C/D Hornets from VMFA-323 will participate in a SINKEX alongside allied forces from the Philippines, Japan and Australia during Balikatan 2025.

Eighty-five years ago today, the Douglas SBD Dauntless made its first flight-ushering in an era of unmatched dive-bombing ...

Bound by camaraderie and shaped by war, Buck Cleven and Bucky Egan rose through the ranks together and led from the front in ...

While the A-36 proved capable of consistently hitting its targets, the aircraft’s accident rate was concerning.

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

While the so-called ‘Blitz Spirit' has latterly been painted as a myth, aerial attacks by the Luftwaffe on the UK's towns and ...

Paintings, vehicles, and even a potentially never-before-seen jellyfish were found among USS Yorktown’s wreckage ...

The number of people trying to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico dropped steeply in President Joe Biden's last year, ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration sent cameras inside the wreck over the Easter holiday weekend and three planes were located in the ...

The USS ‘Yorktown’ was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and now rests at the bottom of the ...