The Grumman F7F Tigercat stands as a testament to technological advancement in aviation, yet it faced challenges that kept it from fully realizing its potential during World War II. Designed as a ...

The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in 1939. However, at this time of need, the fighter types available were pretty limited to say the least ...

In large part, industry won World War II. As the United States converted to a total war economy, it banned the sale of new cars and switched its efforts to building the tools to win the war. Not only ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

Bill Wolf, a Fountain Hills resident for the last 25 years, is deeply passionate about World War II aviation history and for ...

Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens sounded across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, ...

NANKOKU, Kochi -- Once-despised "entai" concrete bunkers built here during World War II to protect military aircraft should ...

Chattahoochee Tech is now the only school in the nation with a rare N3N WWII military aircraft incorporated into its aviation maintenance training program. Only about two dozen of these historic ...