Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

In large part, industry won World War II. As the United States converted to a total war economy, it banned the sale of new cars and switched its efforts to building the tools to win the war. Not only ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World […] ...

Delmer Daves' Task Force, a WW2 naval aviation film and one of the most underrated war classics, starring Gary Cooper, is ...

Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive today. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan interviewed 106-year-old ...

Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens sounded across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, ...

Chattahoochee Tech is now the only school in the nation with a rare N3N WWII military aircraft incorporated into its aviation maintenance training program. Only about two dozen of these historic ...

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

An A-26 Invader, nicknamed Million Airess, will participate in a flyover for the U.S. Air Force Academy vs. Army football game. Because of the government shutdown, the Academy Association of Graduates ...

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