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 ...

And of all the aircraft carriers that served in World War II, one stands apart ... Midway pitted four Japanese carriers ...

North American B-25 Mitchell One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one of the most flown, most versatile, and most successful of all the combat planes of the era.

Superfortress plane is visiting the Ozarks all weekend. The plane named “Doc” is one of 1,644 B-29s built by Boeing during ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

Bonnie Summer of Hollidaysburg lines up to take a photograph of the tail section of a World War II ... American P-51 Mustang fighter. For the price of admission, visitors can explore the aircraft ...

During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

It is estimated that about 16 million Americans served in the armed forces during the course of World War II, including hundreds ... the course of the war. American women joined the farm workforce ...

Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied ...

No aircraft were nearby at the time of ... as they were originally designed to do.” Unexploded American ordnances from World War II are still buried all over Japan, though they rarely detonate.