It wasn't flashy, but it was fearsome. This World War II aircraft earned its place in history through unmatched efficiency and battlefield impact. Built for destruction and reliability, it became one ...

When WW2 began, the Western Front initially saw little ground combat. But there was plenty of action in the air. On 08 ...

Designed during World War II to accommodate a pilot and an ECM operator ... says Jennifer Spradlin of Air Combat Command Public Affairs. Free spirits like Pappy Gunn and other DIYers would ...

“It beat the P-51 in the Reno Air Races,” he says ... U.S. Navy ace to have scored combat victories in both the European and the Pacific theaters of World War II. “I found both German ...

Decades of jungle growth stripped away and multiple runways restored on abandoned airfield in the strategic second island ...

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed ...

Harvey Weir Cook, a Wilkinson native. On March 25, 1943, Weir Cook died in the South Pacific during air combat in World War II. In 1958, the Hancock County 4-H Junior Leaders decided to sponsor a ...

When Melvin Kaminsky arrived in Europe with a field artillery unit, he thought he would be a radio operator. In need of combat engineers, though, the Army noticed the young private's military ...