President Franklin Roosevelt agreed to send 100 P-40 Warhawk fighters ... honoring the Flying Tigers and Chennault starting in 2005 to mark the end of World War II in China, while the ...
As he gripped the controls of his bomber plane on his first war time mission, 21-year-old Harry Richardson gazed back at the ...
As ground troops had been doing for millennia, flying units began using standardized insignia. For pilots, their fighters were ... impact. When World War II broke out in September 1939 ...
Well, the answer isn’t so simple. Some argue the credit for the top “Flying Leatherneck” fighter ace should actually go to ...
World War II was the first ... quickly reach high-flying American bombers. It was also the first plane to feature the swept-back wings that would become common on postwar fighters.
During the air shows, onlookers can see heritage WWIIfighters, like the P-40 Warhawk, flying alongside ... to ever exist by number of aircraft was not an independent air force, but the United States ...
Somewhere in Germany lie the remains of an Armenian American hero who never came home.  Exactly 80 years ago, flight officer Casper Haboian was flying over Nazi Germany in his F-6B Mustang aircraft.
Its journey back to the Netherlands has been long in the making. The aircraft was taken during World War II to become part of a Nazi-Luftwaffe museum planned by Hermann Göring, who orchestrated a ...
The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio ...
By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out how a World War II fighter-bomber was squeezed into an exhibition space on the former aircraft carrier Intrepid. We’ll also ...
Flying Tiger Copenhagen has delighted gardeners with a "charming" £4 gadget that makes it "easier to keep your blooms fresh and vibrant." Fans have fallen in love with the £4 Butterfly shaped ...