Aircraft carriers were the backbone of naval air power during World War II. This footage shows the intense reality pilots faced as they returned from combat, including a dramatic crash landing as a ...

Few people believed it could be done. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy faced a growing logistics problem as aircraft carriers were deployed farther from supply bases than ever before. Existing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet landing on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham ...

While the scope and technology of naval power have evolved immensely in the 80 years since World War II ended, the aircraft carrier continues to be one of the most powerful and important weapons on ...