Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

Lockheed manufactured the first PV-1 Venturas in 1941 for use in England. By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber ...

The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers. Although the Battle of the Coral Sea ended in a tactical victory for Japan, the U.S. had ...

Five Best Bombers of World War II These admittedly highly subjective five Best Lists are virtually guaranteed to generate ...

A Royal Australian Air Force Baltimore bomber aircraft, which was lost has been found. A World War II bomber that was shot down by the Nazis in December 1943 has been discovered -- ending a ...

On a barge in lake mead, in Nevada, under a scorching sun, Dave Conlin pulled on long underwear, wool socks and a fleece jacket and pants. He donned an insulated drysuit over all that, strapped ...

A World War II bomber shot down by Nazi fighters in December 1943 has finally been discovered 82 years later, submerged 61 ...

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 ...

Ensign Jack Carl Fuller received the Navy Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, American Area Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, two Bronze Stars and World War II Victory Medal.

Pilot John Leppla, right, was a WWII Navy ace, credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and declared Missing in Action. (U.S. Navy/National ...