BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Second Lt. Robert R. Keown was piloting his P-38 aircraft to an airfield after a mission in 1944 when it crashed into a mountain in Papua New Guinea. World War II ended without ...

December 25, 1944 - More than 100 9th Air Force Martin B-26 Marauders, Christmas afternoon, dropped their bomb loads on the heart of St. Vith, Belgium, the important road junction and communications ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There was a long-awaited homecoming Friday for the remains of a U.S. Air Force navigator who was killed in action during World War II. Robert Lewis Porter died in February of 1944 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. "My father would be amazed and delighted that the aerial ...

Driving rain fell with the ferocity of machinegun fire while thunder bombarded the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force's rotunda as if it were distant air strike's. Yet, the elements could ...

An Air Force Civil Engineering Squadron in the United Kingdom uncovered the largest-ever haul of unexploded World War II ordnance on record for a U.S. engineer regiment. The 48th Civil Engineering ...

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying ...

The Air Force Academy football team's plan to wear uniforms honoring the participants in an air attack on Japan during World War II has elicited positive and negative reactions. "Although the raid did ...

The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...

If you have the opportunity to make light of war by associating it with a football game, my guess is you should probably just not. Apparently, Air Force didn't get the memo. The academy unveiled its ...

The Air Force has removed training courses featuring videos of the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to comply with the Trump administration's directives on diversity, equity, ...