GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Breathing new life into a piece of history. Near the Grand Junction Airport, a 1945 torpedo bomber, once used in World War II, is hiding away at the Rocky Mountain Wing ...
Douglas TBD Devastator Early History and Specifications: The TBD Devastator made her maiden flight on April 15, 1935, and officially entered into operational service with the U.S. Navy on Aug. 3, 1937 ...
Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles to the U.S. winning World War II in the Pacific Theater. Research by his ...
NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Douglas Devastator was the US Navy's first all-metal combat aircraft, the Navy's first airplane with a fully enclosed cockpit, ...
When one thinks of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations in the months leading up to the Battle of Midway, one name that readily comes to mind is Lt. Edward "Butch" O'Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot ...
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — James Carlile recently turned 100 years old. The World War II veteran sat down with Nexstar’s KAMR to speak about his time in the United States Navy and share his stories ...
Nobody even considered the bomber a possibility at the turn of the twentieth century. But by the start of World War II, the bomber was the strategic power projection by several nations. Countries, ...