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 ...

Pilots trained extensively on Maui, practicing the art of engaging the Japanese ... the Navy’s famous aviation demonstration team. When World War II ended, the military was “scrapping ...

Hundreds of that kind of plane occupied Chico’s runway during 1942 as the Chico Army Airfield trained pilots for World War II. To Mueller ... According to aircraft records, this plane was ...

Detailed exhibits at the National Museum of World War II Aviation trace the development of aviation as well as the role it played before and during World War II, with a particular focus on ...