During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, a small group of inexperienced B-26 Marauders and TBF Avengers launched a daring attack on the Japanese Fleet. Despite flying hand-modified bombers with no ...
Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...
Groton — On Thursday, a small crowd watched as family members of retired Master Chief Deen Brown gathered on the bridge to the Historic Ship Nautilus. On the count of three, taps played as his ...
At Midway, the Dauntless was credited with sinking or mortally wounding each of the four Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the battle. Arguably the most important U.S. aircraft in World War II’s ...
Dive into the dramatic events of World War II as we explore "The Attack That Doomed Mikuma at the Battle of Midway, 1942." ...
Rodney Davis, an Athens man who has studied and visited numerous sites of World War II, will speak on the Battle of Midway at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Oconee County Library, located in Wire Park off ...
As June 4 approaches, I am reminded that this is the 63rd anniversary of the momentous battle that was the turning point of World War II in the Pacific. Of course, I'm speaking of the Battle of Midway ...
The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The aircraft carrier was sunk by a Japanese submarine after the 1942 Battle of ...
Fox television newsman Bret Baier has continued his magnificent American history series with the new biography, “To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower” (Mariner ...