During World War II, American fighter pilots relied on specialized uniforms, survival gear, and flight equipment to withstand ...

Arguably, the last such man is James McCubbin, a North American P-51D Mustang pilot of the Eighth Air Force who is currently ...

Famous P-51 pilots included Chuck Yeager, who later broke the sound barrier, and the Tuskegee Airmen. After World War II, they were used during the Korean War and by Air National Guard units ...

Brewer’s P-51. So there was a good chance that the pilot recovered from the wreckage at Moggio Udinese was Brewer. Tony Bennett saw racism and horror in World War II. It changed him. But the ...

Mustang pilots were up to the challenge: they destroyed nearly 5,000 enemy aircraft in World War II. The P-51 (cockpit above) was used in all major theaters of the war including long-range high ...

"It's agile, to me, it's easy to fly." Just like a World War II-era P-51 Mustang, the veteran pilot from the 14th Air Force is easy to talk to his ammunition. Quick wit. "Don't you have better ...

Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson Jr., on the wing of his P-51 Mustang, was the last living triple ace pilot of World War II. MUST CREDIT: Gift of Obrin Medley/The National WWII Museum Clarence E.

Initially designed for the Royal Air Force, the Mustang became a pivotal aircraft in WWII after its ... but the P-51 went from a “clean-sheet” design to a flying prototype in just 102 days.

After a Grand Rapids World War II veteran’s medal was found in a Georgia junk heap, a local historian dug up everything he ...

While the P-51 is regarded by many as the best fighter of World War II, I think there are some F4U pilots that would argue the point. Q: A physics question I could never find the answer to ...

John Galvin became an ace pilot during WWII, but his most prized award may ... load ammunition belts in the wing of a North American P-51 Mustang in Honington, England, in1944.

On scores of missions, the P-51 fighter with a skinny rabbit ... Brewer Jr., 23, one of the renowned World War II African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, climbed into the cockpit ...