Flak Bait, a Martin B-26 Marauder, flew 207 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe - more than any American aircraft in the ETO - and is now being fully restored at the Smithsonian.
TaildraggerA P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet of Greenland glacier ice, Glacier Girl flew again on October 26, 2002, sixty years after her emergency landing.
TaildraggerIn August 1944, 168 Allied airmen including P-38 pilot Joe Moser were sent to Buchenwald concentration camp - and a smuggled note got 156 of them out.
TaildraggerOn the night of May 16, 1943, RAF 617 Squadron breached two German dams using Barnes Wallis's revolutionary spinning bomb in one of WWII's most precisely engineered air raids.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle completed 25 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe in 1943 and now stands fully restored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after a 17-year effort.
TaildraggerOn August 1, 1943, 178 B-24 Liberators attacked Nazi-controlled oil refineries at treetop level in the costliest and most decorated single-day mission in Army Air Forces history.
TaildraggerHow Barnes Wallis's spinning bomb and 617 Squadron's precision flying destroyed two of Germany's most critical dams in a single night in 1943.
TaildraggerHow the Air Transport Command flew 650,000 tons of supplies over the Himalayas between 1942 and 1945, and why those missions still shape military aviation today.
TaildraggerOn May 16–17, 1943, nineteen Lancaster crews flew at sixty feet over black water to destroy the Ruhr dams - a story of precision engineering and extraordinary cost.
TaildraggerThe B-17E known as the Swamp Ghost crashed in a Papua New Guinea swamp in 1942 and was recovered 64 years later, nearly intact, due to rare bog preservation conditions.
TaildraggerOn August 16, 1942, a Navy K-class blimp landed itself in a California street - its two-man crew gone without a trace, no distress call, no bodies ever found.
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