Many experts consider it the best World War II fighter plane. -Conceived in just five years, the Mustang’s prototype, the NA-73X, was designed, built, and flown within 180 days. Initially ...

The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

The US Air Force Museum boasts the world's greatest aircraft displays with some of its rarest and most iconic aircraft.

Manufactured from 1938 to 1944, 13,738 Curtis P40-Warhawk fighter planes were produced. Although technological progress in aviation outpaced the Warhawk by the end of WWII, it held the distinction ...

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII ... by Wildcat fighters. The U.S. bombers sank a number of Japanese ships, in addition to damaging multiple other vessels. Of the 104 carrier planes involved ...

When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the ... made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and its first WWII aviator to receive the Medal of Honor.