Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

faced the Japanese carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku and light carriers Zuiho and Junyo off the Santa Cruz Islands. As U.S. forces headed toward the Japanese fleet, U.S. aircraft passed Japanese planes ...

MANILA, Philippines —The French Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle docked in the Philippines for the first time on Friday, February 21 — a milestone in the growing defense ...

The US Navy has relieved the commander of an aircraft carrier that collided with a mercantile vessel in the Mediterranean Sea near the entrance to the Suez Canal. Capt. Dave Snowden was serving as ...

MANILA, Philippines — The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the flagship of the French Navy, arrived in the Philippines on February 21, accompanied by its Carrier Strike Group ...

ABOARD THE FS CHARLES DE GAULLE, West Philippine Sea — As Rafale fighter jets roared overhead, the only non-American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world sailed through these waters, in a ...

WASHINGTON – The Navy fired the captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier that struck a cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Feb. 12. Capt. Dave Snowden, who took command of the nuclear-powered USS ...

The last month and a half has seen a spate of aircraft accidents involving United States air carriers. The latest occurrence took place on Monday when a Delta Air Lines regional jet crashed and ...