Smithsonian magazine. And he interviews Rebecca Sheets, Manown’s niece, about what her uncle’s recovery meant for her and her family.A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” and ...

Shot down, captured, and held in a Nazi POW camp - this Allied pilot had every reason to give up. Instead, he took the ultimate gamble and stole a German bomber to make his escape. This unbelievable ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

Maj. Donald K. Willis crash-landed his plane in Nazi-occupied Holland then stopped at cafes for beers — all while evading the ...

During the WHOI mission to photograph the USS F-1, the researchers also surveyed another piece of military wreckage: a lost ...

calisthenics and classroom learning has included instruction on the Tuskegee Airman and how the pioneering Black pilots played a vital role in the Allied war effort. Well before World War II ...

Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over the country from the manufacturer to be loaded on to aircraft carriers, or ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...

It landed under a veil of utmost secrecy at Beaulieu Airfield, home to the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment.

The WestPac Restoration and the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs are working on expanding their ...

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...