World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

One came off the ... the United States built more planes than the Japanese did from 1939 to 1945. By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place ...

Tennyson was a 24-year-old first lieutenant in the U.S. Army when he was killed during World War II ... “Observers saw one crew member bail out of the plane, but he appeared to be wearing ...