TILLAMOOK Ore. (KPTV) - The Tillamook Air Museum houses two dozen historic aircraft inside a massive World War II-era hangar, offering visitors an interactive aviation experience unlike traditional ...

World War II was such an all-encompassing conflict that nearly everyone was involved in one way or another. In the United States, civilians gathered scrap metal and other materials for the war effort, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1934 the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia was tasked to manufacture a new primary trainer for the U.S. Navy.

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 Canary (“Yellow Peril”) Bureau Number 2831. A tandem-seat primary trainer, the Canary was known as the “Yellow Peril” and by some accounts was due to its tendency to ...

Barns, manors, and mills were transformed into bustling assembly halls by the British aircraft industry during WWII, uniting together legendary aircraft builders in one struggle: Supermarine, Hawker, ...

Few vessels defined the Second World War as aircraft carriers. What was once a niche vessel became a lynchpin for any modern naval force. America’s WW2 aircraft carriers were a cut above the rest ...

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, fought in battles across the Pacific Theater, including at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It suffered heavy casualties during the invasion of Okinawa ...