The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in 1939. However, at this time of need, the fighter types available were pretty limited to say the least ...

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

The P-39 was one of America's first-line pursuit planes in December 1941. It made its initial flight in April 1939 at Wright Field, Ohio, and by the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, nearly 600 had ...

(WSPA) — A Greenville fighter pilot who died while fighting in World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday. During the summer of 1943, U.S.