World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war for new modern dogfighters.

The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

Harry Stewart Jr. learned to fly even before he could drive and helped save the world from the evils of fascism.

Stewart celebrates his “hat trick” after downing three Nazi aircraft. (Courtesy of Lt ... Stewart was one of two surviving ...

He was one of two of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed combat pilots of World War II.

Harry S. Stewart Jr., a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for three kills in a ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...