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

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

Some of the most credible encounters with nonhuman aircraft have happened over the world’s oceans. Now, the witnesses want ...

A Navy pilot was rescued after a $67 million fighter jet plunged into ocean waters off the Virginia coast Wednesday morning — ...

The latest F/A-18 Super Hornet crash off Virginia adds to a string of recent Navy mishaps after a pilot survived a water ...

A Navy pilot was rescued after ejecting from a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet, like the one pictured here, off the coast of ...

Search and rescue teams safely recovered a Navy pilot Wednesday off the coast of Virginia after the pilot ejected from an F/A ...

A Navy pilot was rescued and taken to the hospital after they ejected from an F/A-18E Super Hornet off the coast of Virginia ...

*National Geographic’s new six-part series, “Top Guns: The Next Generation,” premieres September 16 at 9/8c, offering a ...

A U.S. Navy pilot was rescued Wednesday morning after their F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet crashed into ocean waters off of ...

According to an Air Force study, these individuals experienced higher rates of melanoma, thyroid cancer and prostate cancer.

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