Smithsonian magazine. And he interviews Rebecca Sheets, Manown’s niece, about what her uncle’s recovery meant for her and her family.A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” and ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace ... The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers. Although the Battle of the Coral Sea ...

A historic WWII-era TBM Avenger crashed at Terre Haute Regional Airport. Here's a look at the Avenger's history.

Mazza gunned his TBD Devastator torpedo bomber down the deck of the USS Lexington ... where a convoy of Japanese ships was off-loading men and equipment in support of an invasion force that ...

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 ...

An unexploded American bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

The ship famously stayed afloat after multiple bombs were dropped on it by Japanese aircraft, but was too weak to withstand a submarine torpedo about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu.

The mission was carried out with a B-25C "Mitchell" bomber. McCook was the plane's ... The two surviving airmen were captured by Japanese forces. The DPAA did not say if the fourth airman who ...

The remains of an Army aviator recovered last year from the wreckage of his submerged bomber have been officially ... Heaven Can Wait was shot down by Japanese antiaircraft gunners off the coast ...

you’re the first people to see this since June 6, 1942,” when the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. “It was a breathtaking moment for everybody,” he said in a recent telephone ...

The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers. Although the Battle of the Coral Sea ended in a tactical victory for Japan, the U.S. had ...