I was sitting with my daughter-in-law across the street and all I could do was cry,” Chickie Corrado Gould said.

U.S. Navy Aviation Radioman 2nd Class Robert L. Cyr Jr. enlisted at 17 and flew patrols in the Pacific before his death at 19.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A Navy hero from New Haven, Connecticut, who vanished during a combat mission in the South Pacific over 80 years ago, is finally coming home to rest. Robert Louis Cyr Jr., an ...

In the chaotic weeks after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy orders an extraordinary and risky offensive: slow, lightly armed PBY Catalina flying boats are sent over 800 miles to attack Japanese warships ...

OAK HARBOR, Wash. – A story, years in the making, came to an end for the city of Oak Harbor when a CH-47 Chinook air crew from the Washington Army National Guard air lifted a World War II-era PBY-5a ...

The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a famous flying boat manufactured in the USA that made its first flight on March 28, 1935. A PBY-5A Catalina, BuNo 48294, sporting the livery it wore with the US Navy ...

South African engineer Henri Johnson invented one of the first radar speed guns specifically for ball tracking in sports. The world’s first radar speed gun was developed for the US military by John L ...

Russo Street in Providence is less than a half mile long, running parallel to Charles Street, from Hawkins Street north to Social Street. What most of us do not know was that in the 1930s it bore the ...

Newly unsealed government records related to famed American aviator Amelia Earhart have been made public. The U.S. National Archives released 4,624 pages related to the disappearance of Earhart on the ...

Nathan Gordon stretched his flying boat's capabilities past the limit - saving 15 downed USAAF crew members amid 18 foot swells.