NEW YORK -- Police divers were expected to begin raising the wreckage Saturday of a vintage World War II plane that crashed into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, killing the pilot.

Aircraft carriers were the backbone of naval air power during World War II. This footage shows the intense reality pilots faced as they returned from combat, including a dramatic crash landing as a ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A World War II-era aircraft crashed while trying to land at Terre Haute Regional Airport Thursday afternoon. Authorities say two people were on the plane with the pilot being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A memorial at the site honours two Royal Air Force airmen who died during a training exercise in 1944 while flying a de Havilland ...

Apart from changing the global political landscape and churning out tech that is relevant till date, World War II played a crucial role in taking aviation to new heights. The aviation industry in the ...

The remains of a Williamsport Army Air Forces staff sergeant killed in World War II when the B-24J “Liberator” bomber on which he was the left waist gunner crashed into the Baltic Sea have been ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...