Almost 1,000 African Americans trained at the Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Nearly half were sent overseas for combat ...

The historic display of a German Messerschmitt Me-262 fighter in the United Kingdom Horten Ho-229, the avant-garde German ...

During the holidays, we’re bringing back our journalists’ favorite stories of 2025. This one is from May. Clayton Henkel: ...

As the nation reflects on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, CAF Airbase Georgia—one of the largest flying museums in the Southeast and a founding partner of the Georgia WWII Heritage ...

Michelle Thomason is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Wilson Beaver is a senior policy advisor in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.

This is the story of the P 47 Thunderbolt's staggering impact and a poignant ending. We follow "Dottie May," a famous Evansville built P 47, on her 90+ missions to her tragic fate: becoming the very ...

The P-47 Thunderbolt was a formidable American fighter-bomber aircraft used during World War II. Its design, engine, and performance made it a significant asset to the Allied forces. Design: Size and ...

Many of the most successful fighter pilots gained fame not only for their aerial tactics, but for their ability to pass their knowledge on to others. Ironically, some of those who handed down their ...

The F-47’s preliminary combat patch depicts a flaming bird—yet there are reasons to suspect the “Phoenix” will not be the sixth-generation plane’s official moniker. The Boeing F-47, the manned ...

P-47 Thunderbolt pilots discuss their experience flying and strafing in the P-47. I’ve added footage that I’ve designed sound for and enhanced, showing P-47’s taxiing, taking off, formation flying, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

World War II significantly influenced the development of numerous technologies, and one of the most notable was the turbojet-powered aircraft. The Nazis beat the United States to fielding the world's ...