She swam at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, flew with the WASPs in World War II and trained pilots at a time when few women were ...

Located in southeastern Santa Maria, just off Main Street at present-day Allan Hancock College, was the Hancock College of ...

Antonin Fajkus, a longtime Chicago resident, spent his 101st birthday at the Veterans Home in Manteno with a surprise guest: ...

Alice Miller, 104, had her WWII uniform added to museum in Gibsonburg. World War II U.S. Navy nurse’s uniform in Northcoast ...

Three U.S. airmen disappeared after bailing out of a burning B-17 over Germany 80 years ago. An Offutt recovery team ...

A Southwest Airlines pilot has been arrested at a Georgia airport just before takeoff and accused of driving under the influence, according to airline officials and authorities in Georgia. A passenger ...

Georgia: A drunk pilot was removed from the cockpit of the Chicago-bound Southwest Airlines flight moments before the takeoff. The pilot identified as David Paul Allsop, 52, who showed up at the ...

At the end of World War II, Japan had to contend with two megaquakes that occurred along the Nankai trench in 1944 and 1946.

“Japan is facing the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II.” Japan is alarmed by China intruding into its southwestern archipelago, and it regards Russia ...

Third-from-left Terumi Tanaka of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, and others are seen with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, who is offering ...

Retired Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. Leftenant-Colon died ...

(Bloomberg) — A report detailing distracted pilots, airport congestion and shortcomings in safety protocols shines new light into the lead up to last year’s fiery plane crash at Japan’s Haneda Airport ...