June 4 marked the 70th anniversary of the pivotal engagement in the three-day Battle of Midway. In just over five minutes, U.S. Navy dive bombers attacked and sank four Japanese aircraft carriers.

With a telling worthy of his award-winning fiction and buttressed by prodigious research, Robert J. Mrazek's "A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight" recounts the story of a ...

John Ford splices together footage of Torpedo Squadron 8, all but one of whom were later shot down and killed in the Battle of Midway. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with ...

The sentinels. Smiley ; The skipper ; Swede ; The squire ; Old Langdon ; Tex ; Bert and Harry ; Grant and Whitey ; Ozzie and Rete ; Freddy -- Eventide -- He that she live this day and see old age -- ...

On Memorial Day our thoughts naturally turn to the many thousands of Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country, from the Revolutionary War to the present. All of them deserve our ...

June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.—only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8—gaily stole the Navy’s show.

NAS PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A retired U.S. Navy Commander with family ties to the Battle of Midway, displayed artifacts at the Festival of Flight at NAS Pensacola Saturday. Jeff Scarritt's grandfather, ...

Billie H. Redburn VIRGINIA BEACH – Billie H. Redburn, 86, formerly of Hazleton, Ind., died Dec. 6, 2008. From his participation with the Doolittle Raid in 1942 on the USS Hornet to his presidential ...