Perfect Trap: Meet the godfather of Navy and Marine Corps aviation
Vice Adm. Frederick “Trap” Trapnell's Navy career encompassed biplanes, airships, World War II fighters, research planes and early carrier jets.
By Mark Carlson, Aviation History
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Payback at Balikpapan
Only weeks after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, four stalwart destroyers demonstrated that there was still plenty of fight left in the U.S. Navy.
By Michael Crowder, World War II
Stalin, FDR, Project Zebra and a crash everyone tried to pretend never happened
Back when the Navy ran a North Carolina Coast Guard station and the Soviets were our allies.
By Jeff Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot
Keel laid for warship honoring World War II Marine hero
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works reached the milestone in the construction of the future guided-missile destroyer John Basilone.
Accused of murder, Coast Guard seaman headed back to court-martial
Questions continue to swirl about what happened on Alaska's Amaknak Island 11 months ago.
By Carl Prine
Seven down: Courage during an air rescue disaster
A forced landing on Greenland’s ice cap set in motion one of the costliest search-and-rescue operations ever mounted.
By Stephan Wilkinson, Aviation History