Tom Cruise doesn't have anything to do with it, but the Navy flight school featured in the "Top Gun" movies really exists.

On the 5th of August 1964, the US Navy begins operations of a new aircraft over Vietnam. This new multirole aircraft - the F4 Phantom - will come to define Vietnam War era jet combat, but during these ...

Yaacob Daud played a key role in managing boatloads of displaced people who arrived on the east coast in the 1970s.

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to ... The USS Blue Ridge was present during the Vietnam War but more recently aided Japan following its 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Dr. Frank Butler was honored at the White House this month for his contributions to combat casualty care including broader ...

Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...

Fitzgerald researched Stratton's life for the city when a street was named in honor of him. He said that Stratton was born and raised in North Quincy, where he grew up on Bowdoin Street, attended ...

Stratton, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 93, was a Quincy native and one of the longest-serving POWs of the Vietnam war.

A North Dakota House bill that would name a bridge in Bottineau for Navy veteran Carl Woods passed the state House of ...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed Helios — from one of its warships. The undated image, which was published in the US Center for ...

QUINCY – Mayor Thomas Koch was 12 when he first met Navy Capt. Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War hero and former prisoner of war, one of the longest-held captives in that war. The year was 1975 ...