For decades after the dogfight, the U.S. government kept secret the fact that Royce Williams had fought against Soviet ...

On Nov. 18, 1952, Royce Williams was piloting an F9F-5 Panther when he encountered seven Soviet MiG-15s. He shot down four of ...

President Trump is awarding the Medal of Honor to a pilot whose faceoff with Soviet fighter jets remained secret for a ...

More than 70 years after he took part in the longest dogfight in Navy history, scoring four aerial victories, Royce Williams might finally get the Medal of Honor. Over the weekend, Congress released ...

The Cold War (1947-1991) was a long undeclared conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. During that long conflict, American and Soviet aviators engaged in ...

A 100-year-old Korean War veteran involved in a secretive dogfight with seven Russian fighter planes more than 70 years ago would be eligible for the Medal of Honor upon the passage of a new defense ...

On October 15th 2016, the 43,000 ton Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuzentsov slipped out of the Kola Bay fjord in the Barents Sea. Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the powerful ...

Conceptualized in 1939, two years before Nazi Germany betrayed their Soviet “ally,” the Soviet Navy was developing Project Kostromitinov. This Soviet aircraft carrier was a truly ambitious project—and ...

The story of a daring and oft forgotten nighttime air raid on the Nazi capital, carried out by the Soviet Navy using near obsolescent torpedo planes, early in the war on the Eastern Front. The history ...

The Il-28 bomber saw extensive wartime service across the globe. Deployed by over 20 nations, it fought in the Biafran and ...

Legendary Navy aviator Royce Williams, who shot down four Soviet MiG-15 fighters in 1952, is the inspiration for legislation that would make it easier for troops and veterans to be awarded the Medal ...