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 ...

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...

During World War ... made by the Army Air Forces in World War II." Yet, thanks in large part to Hitchcock, when soldiers and sailors looked to the skies over Normandy while storming the beaches at ...

Bonnie Summer of Hollidaysburg lines up to take a photograph of the tail section of a World War II B-24 bomber at the Blair County Airport on Friday. MARTINSBURG — History touched down at the ...

Enola Gay was the name of the B-29 aircraft that dropped the world's first atomic bomb used in war on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. The pilot handpicked the name, honoring his mother, the ...