More than 80 years after it was sunk in combat, the German submarine U-864 remains a silent threat beneath the waters off Norway. Loaded with nearly 67 tons of metallic mercury, the wreck continues to ...

Structural remains and aircraft components linked to the German Luftwaffe have been uncovered at a former wartime airfield ...

Workers have transported the 13,000-pound plane from its former display at Forbes Field in south Topeka over to the Philip ...

Johnstone served as a navigator aboard a B-24 bomber that was shot down during a mission over Austria on February 25, 1945.

The United States has extensive experience in maritime salvage operations—recovering planes lost from the decks of aircraft carriers during mishaps at sea. China does not. The International Institute ...

As Route 66 nears its centennial, a new restaurant by chef Andrew Black aims to tell the story of the Oklahoma pilot behind one of El Reno’s most photographed landmarks.

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

During WWII, Dayton's airport became a major modification center for warplanes before they were sent to combat areas. Dan Patterson discusses that history and how companies like Sierra Nevada are ...

The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team will perform a jump from the Tico Belle in Titusville this Saturday, headlining a ...

SEATTLE — More than 175 aircraft and spacecraft are housed at The Museum of Flight, but one plane’s history is being kept alive by a man who once flew it into combat. Ninety-one years after the Boeing ...

The head of a Florida-based Christian charity said Friday he doubts anyone survived an airplane crash in Haiti after rescuers searching by helicopters located the wreckage earlier in the day in a ...

Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. The USS ...