If the trenches were the defining combat element of the First World War, then surely air power was the defining element in ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

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 ...

During World War II, before the age of computer-generated aircraft engineering drawings, thousands of skilled draftsmen created tens of thousands of drawings for every aspect of every model of ...

The USS Enterprise was America’s most decorated ship in WWII. An aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, shot down 911 enemy aircraft and sank 71 ships. It also damaged or destroyed another 192 ships ...

The lightweight aircraft was equipped with a 950-horsepower engine, helping it reach speeds of 331 mph and a service ceiling of 32,810 feet. Entering service in 1940, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 was one ...

Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr. of Michigan, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, has died.

[Courtesy: Curt and Eric Schutze] The airfield’s origins are rooted in World War II aviation, and its ownership has only changed a few times in more than eight decades. Its first civilian owner ...

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 ...