George H.W. Bush, the 41st president who died Friday at age 94, would celebrate his age milestones with a high-flying hobby — skydiving.“It’s vintage George Bush,” said family spokesman ...

Inside a kitchen table-sized box in a storage unit at the Alexian Village retirement community on Signal Mountain sits William Hartshorn's old World War II parachute, its shroud lines still frayed ...

Segregated Soldiers in World War II A member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American fighter pilots, and a veteran who served with the 44… October 27, 2017 ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Early in World War II, the German army unleashed a new weapon in the form of airborne assault — the delivery of highly trained forces by parachute and glider that proved extremely effective in ...

Two legendary ace World War II pilots had their wishes granted this week, climbing into the open cockpit of a Boeing Stearman PT-17 biplane for one last flight. Col. Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson ...

As Americans continue to recognize the fallen members of D-Day from World War II, Congressman Jason Crow, an Army combat veteran who served in the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment ...

Mary Ellis, a “pioneering aviator” who was one of the last surviving female World War II pilots, has died at the age of 101.

The World War II CG4-A Glider was designed and developed by the Waco Aircraft Company in Ohio, but the Pratt and Reed Co. in Essex was one of the country's leading contractors for the aircraft.