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

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

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 ...

At 26,000 Feet” provides historical analysis of in-flight bathroom breaks based on the firsthand accounts of the military men ...

China will stage a massive military parade next month involving tens of thousands of people in the heart of Beijing to ...

A Royal Navy bomb disposal team has destroyed hundreds of rounds of ammunition which was unearthed in the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft on a beach. The wreckage, on Cleethorpes beach in ...

World War II veteran Donald McPherson, believed to be the last living American “ace” pilot, has died at the age of 103.

Donald McPherson, a World War II veteran believed to be America's last surviving "ace" pilot for shooting down at least five ...

China will stage a massive military parade next month in Beijing to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War Two ...

Donald McPherson, a Nebraska farmer and World War II fighter ace credited with shooting down five Japanese planes, has died ...

America’s last surviving World War II ace pilot died Aug. 14 at his Nebraska home, the Beatrice Daily Sun reported.