World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

North American did have a part numbering ... Canada’s largest aircraft manufacturer during World War II. The team designed a system of a lattice framework made of wire that the archival tubes ...

Explorers charting the wreck of a famous American World War II aircraft carrier have made a remarkable discovery more than ...

In the Murmansk region of Russia, aircraft wrecks from World War II are regularly discovered. Numerous photographs show machines of German, Soviet, and American origin recovered from the water.

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was among the aircrafts used in Japan's attacks on the U.S. at places like Pearl Harbor in 1942, devastating American planes at the time. The lightweight aircraft was ...

The Corsair is one of 18 Navy planes on loan at the Intrepid ... Curators pointed to another American World War II pilot, Alfred Lerch, who became an Ace fighter in his first day flying ...

"For me, it's been a lifetime journey of honoring World War II veterans ... visited Normandy American Cemetery this week to pay tribute to the fallen "We lost half of our planes and half of ...