North American began production of the P-51A Mustang at its Inglewood, California, production plant. As the war effort ramped ...

The public mostly remembers the North American P-51 Mustang as the fighter ... 50 caliber machine guns, the Mustang could sling a respectable array of napalm, bombs and anti-vehicle rockets ...

Nonetheless, a modernized Mustang was a curious choice ... not dogfighting Messerschmitts over Berlin. While the P-51 had a bomb load of a thousand pounds, the PA-48 could carry a respectable ...

A P-51 Mustang flies over Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling ... Among the heavy losses were those of the 100th Bomb Group. Losing 12 out of 13 planes, the 100th earned its “Bloody” nickname ...

The bombs and rockets improved the airplane ... controlling the air proved the key to controlling the ground. The long-range P-51 Mustang fighter helped secure the Allied victory by enabling ...

“The P-51 Mustang is the most iconic fighter plane ... armed with high-caliber machine guns and the ability to carry bombs, rockets and fuel tanks under its wings. By the end of World War ...

(U.S. Air Force) The paint job was the work of the Air Force’s A-10 Demonstration Team, based out of Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, and was inspired by the storied P-51 Mustang of ...

In duels over Eastern Europe, the agile fighter scored kill after kill David Kindy - Correspondent The P-51 Mustang was the darling of the Army Air Forces. Aerodynamically agile and acrobatic ...