Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. An airstrip once used to develop U.S. pilots during ...

WENDOVER — At the Historic Wendover Airfield, the silence can feel heavy. It's almost as if you can sense them. "We feel that connection to those individuals who trained here," said Landon Wilkey, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kestrel Warbirds of Middletown, Ohio, will offer living history rides in a vintage aircraft Aug. 2-3 in Port Clinton. According to ...

During the height of World War II, when thousands of troops were learning intelligence craft at Camp Ritchie in central Maryland, a much smaller corps of several hundred was being trained for ...

During World War II, the United States undertook one of the most ambitious aviation infrastructure expansions in history, constructing hundreds of airfields across the country to train pilots, stage ...

Second Lt. Lester L. Lowry was flying a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft when he lost control in heavy cloud and dove straight into the ground on Jan. 26, 1944 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1931, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria and set up a puppet state. Then in November 1936 Japan signed an anti-Communist pact with Nazi ...

Dressed in a period civilian flight instructor uniform, Chuck Workman of Lakewood, California, at right, watches a B-25 Mitchell bomber that was part of a fly-in at Eagle Field in Dos Palos in June ...