Long before the United States officially entered World War II, a small group of American volunteer pilots secretly resigned ...

Outmatched at high altitude but tough, fast in a dive, and always available, the Curtiss P-40 carried the early air war when few better options existed. From Pearl Harbor and North Africa to China and ...

The Flying Tigers were a mercenary group of pilots from the United States who flew combat missions against the Japanese armed forces which had invaded free China in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

A recent visit to Buffalo of a P-40 Flying Tiger and the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle helped me recall my experience of working on the victory shift. This is a term few people have heard about, ...