The 1943 Ploesti raid sent 178 low-flying B-24 Liberators against Hitler's oil, earning five Medals of Honor at a staggering cost.
TaildraggerThe story of the Swamp Ghost, a B-17E that sat in a New Guinea swamp for 64 years before its 2006 recovery to Pearl Harbor.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle survived 25 WWII missions, then a 13-year restoration returned the famous B-17 to display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton.
TaildraggerHow the slow, homely Douglas SBD Dauntless sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War in five minutes.
TaildraggerThe P-51 Mustang began as an underpowered disappointment until a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine swap turned it into WWII's finest piston fighter.
TaildraggerDoc the B-29 Superfortress spent 42 years abandoned in the Mojave Desert before volunteers returned her to the Kansas skies where she was born.
TaildraggerThe Vought F4U Corsair overcame early carrier rejection to achieve an 11-to-1 kill ratio in the Pacific and serve through the Korean War, with over 12,600 built across eleven years.
TaildraggerFlak Bait, the B-26 Marauder that flew 207 combat missions over Europe, is being fully restored at the Smithsonian with all 1,100+ battle damage patches preserved.
TaildraggerOn the night of May 16, 1943, RAF 617 Squadron flew modified Lancasters at sixty feet above German reservoirs to deliver Barnes Wallis's revolutionary bouncing bomb against the Ruhr Valley dams.
TaildraggerHow the P-51 Mustang's Merlin engine and 1,100-mile range broke the Luftwaffe and rescued Allied strategic bombing from catastrophic failure in 1944.
TaildraggerSix iconic WWII warbirds explained on America's 250th anniversary - from the Mustang's Merlin swap to the Dauntless strikes that turned the Pacific War.
TowerThe Memphis Belle B-17 survived 25 combat missions over Europe, then 40 years of outdoor neglect, before a 12-year restoration returned her to museum condition in 2018.
TaildraggerThe true story of Franz Stigler, the German ace who escorted a crippled B-17 to safety instead of shooting it down in December 1943.
TaildraggerHow a band of American test pilots raced across defeated Germany to seize Hitler's secret jets before the Soviets could claim them.
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