In his very first air combat mission over Germany, P 51 Mustang pilot Edward McNeff faced a lethal and skilled Luftwaffe ...

May 9 was World War II Victory Day in Europe, and one of the decisive factors leading to the victory of the world’s peace-seeking nations was the effective cooperation of the countries of the ...

For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought near ruinous casualty numbers. The odds of a B-17 crewman surviving the 25 missions required to complete a tour were only one in ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...

TILLAMOOK Ore. (KPTV) - The Tillamook Air Museum houses two dozen historic aircraft inside a massive World War II-era hangar, offering visitors an interactive aviation experience unlike traditional ...

Jo Spencer was 13 months old in 1955 when her father died a few feet from her, on the floor near her crib in Middletown, Ohio. That shell of a man, Christopher Norman Holweger, was just 34. Twelve ...

MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Commemorative Air Force Lobo Wing is in the process of restoring a plane used to train bombardier students for World War II. An AT-11 that started its journey in ...

Beginning Friday, peer high into the skies above Kansas City — and particularly southern Johnson County — and there is a chance you will see and hear the whirring props of what are aguably some of the ...

Lt. Col. Ernest Turner, commander of the 371st Bombardment Squadron, left, presents Sgt. Thomas Stevens with the Air Medal for completion of 27 combat missions in the Korean War. (Courtesy Thomas ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...