This documentary tells the story of the USS Hornet, one of the most iconic aircraft carriers of World War II. From launching ...

Wednesday is the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which turned the tide against the Japanese during World War II, ...

Before Pearl Harbor, the United States had been able to crack Japan’s secret codes, a feat that allowed the military to learn and prepare for Japanese plans to attack Midway Ato ...

Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands ...

Plans for the upcoming battle called for a well-coordinated attack utilizing the ... On the morning of June 4, the Japanese carriers were sighted some 200 miles northwest of Midway. They had already ...

The aircraft carrier-turned-museum was named for the original USS Hornet that carried out the Doolittle mission and sunk in battle seven months later. In a bit of irony, Retelas was helping sift ...

on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway ... An entire squadron of 15 torpedo planes from the USS Hornet, in fact, never returned, and only one pilot was later rescued.

As announced 56 years to the day of the June 4, 1942 battle which led to its demise, USS Yorktown was recently discovered, more than three miles under the sea, off the island of Midway in the ...

Montana pilot Jim Muri thundered into military history 75 years ago during the Battle of Midway by steering his badly crippled bomber just a few feet above the deck of the Japanese aircraft ...

BILLINGS — Jim Muri, a Montanan whose legendary flying prowess saved his stricken bomber and crew during the Battle of Midway in World War II, died Sunday at age 93. Muri earned national ...