Mr. McPherson served as a Navy pilot of a Hellcat fighter plane aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater.

Nation's last surviving World War II Navy fighter pilot shot down five Japanese planes while serving on the USS Essex.

From America’s entry into World War II in December of 1941 to the end of the conflict early in September, 1945, the United ...

Amid the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end comes the death of what is believed to be America’s last surviving ace, Don ...

Don McPherson, of Nebraska, who was believed to be the last surviving World War II official American ace naval fighter pilot ...

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered ending World War II.

A Texas man thought to be the US Navy sailor kissing a nurse in an iconic end of World War Two photo has died. Glenn McDuffie died aged 86 at a nursing home in Dallas on Sunday, his daughter said.