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The “ghost blimp” has never been explained. L-8 was repaired and returned to service before being sent back to Goodyear, ...
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Friday for dawn services and street marches to ...
Ground attack aircraft don't always get the same level of fame that fighter jets do, but they have long served a critical ...
Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...
Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.
Rhode Islander serving on the flagship of the Amphibious Ready Group The Norfolk-based USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) is named for the historic World War II battle in the Pacific. It was built at Ingalls ...
However, its dominance would be short-lived, and by the end of World War II, many would view the Me ... powerful short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) maneuvers but also to hover when ...
During World War II, the federal government directly ... which developed innovations in lightweight engines for tanks, landing craft and marine vehicles. Later in the 20th century, America began ...
The pair want to build a "sleek, angled, metallic floating home" on the estuary nearby Worthing by dismantling a Second World War landing craft. The home is designed to look like a boat ...
A Russian rocket carrying a crew from the United States and Russia has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...
Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day.