But at 7:20 a.m., fate intervened to ensure the young pilot an unwelcome and enduring place in history, branded as the man who had a chance ... he joined the Army Air Corps in 1936 and earned ...

The 38-year-old man and two young relatives in his ... were rescued from the wreck by an Alaska Army National Guard helicopter, which lifted them to safety. Pilot Terry Godes and his to younger ...

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Army Major Carol Kirk. She deployed to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1969 and remembers some of the men she cared for.

A pilot and his two young daughters survived on the wing of ... The missing Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser, piloted by a man with two juvenile immediate family members aboard, was on a sightseeing ...