President Barack Obama signs a 2009 bill awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to Women Airforce Service Pilots. By the time the recognition came, Illinois-born WASP Nadine Ramsey had died.

U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Milton L. Hymes, Jr., a navigator on a B-24J bomber, was killed in a crash over the Baltic Sea in 1944.

Britain first discovered gas in the North sea in 1965. Oil finds soon followed and by the early 1980s the UK was exporting more oil than it imported. Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and ...

Georgetown pilot killed during World War II finally accounted for Charles W. McCook was killed in a plane crash in Burma McCook will be buried in Georgetown in August WASHINGTON - A Georgetown ...

He’d see a lot of planes — from the inside —throughout World War II. Now 101, he can recall a few times he may ... Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who ...