A new heritage trail is celebrating the workers who worked on thousands of planes.

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true during the Second World War with the Pacific Ocean being a veritable battlefield ...

In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane had evolved from a rickety DIY creation to ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

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, ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Rare and historic World War II aircraft are on display and available for tours at Shreveport Downtown Airport. The C-47 Skytrain troop transport named That’s All, Brother led the ...

Connor, Roger and Moore, Christopher T. 2010. In the Cockpit II: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

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