War drives innovation, but it can also hasten the production of equipment that isn't ready. Here are a few planes that should ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as the worst aircraft ...

On Nov. 14, 1970, a chartered Southern Airways plane crashed while trying to land in West Virginia, killing all 75 people on ...

The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...

With the looming shadow of war, they married (unbeknown to his parents ... While he was chasing a Dornier 17 light bomber ...

Crosley-produced proximity fuses were the first deployed to enemy lines and responsible for the first kill of an enemy aircraft. The world's first smart bomb, produced here in Cincinnati, turned the ...

A 1912 photo of Brokaw Eden Washing Machine Co. captures its early Alton operations before relocating to New Jersey in 1922.

Alan McInnes from Unum Aircraft Seating explores the evolution of aircraft seats, including how innovation, materials, and ...

A 102-year-old woman who worked in a tank factory during World War Two says she is "proud" she contributed to the war effort.

Mark Andrews looks back through the decades to mark the Express & Star's 150th anniversary. Today we look at the 1940s.

Today’s Caprock Chronicles article about Lubbock’s World War II Breakfast Club is by frequent contributor Chuck Lanehart.

A New Hanover High School class ring was found on a dead German solider in World War II. That's where the mystery begins.