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 ...

A US military cargo plane returned to a World War II airstrip on Saturday ... a basis for the HBO miniseries "The Pacific." The aircraft's touchdown on the Peleliu airstrip epitomizes the US ...

Donald Madar is the great nephew of technician Andy Piter Jr, from Pennsylvania, who was 22 when he died in the crash. He ...

The engine of a Spitfire that crashed in a field in East Sussex during World War Two is set to go on display in a museum. How ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

Before America’s entry into World War II, he taught history in a Moline ... He first searched a list of military aircraft serial numbers on joebaugher.com, a website familiar to most warbird ...

As its name suggests, this museum is packed with military aircraft (more specifically, World War I- and World War II-era airplanes), which have been restored to their prewar condition. Noteworthy ...

In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt Disney's company to develop an insignia for the military unit. What Disney devised was an image of Mickey Mouse riding a goose, with a Navy ...