A dive team explores the submerged B-29 bomber at Lake Mead, a WWII relic preserved underwater since 1948.

U.S. Navy pilots flew the TBD-1 Devastator against the Japanese in the 1942 Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Developed by Douglas Aircraft Co. in 1937, the Devastator was the Navy’s first ...

The XB-41 Liberator tried to turn a B-24 bomber into a heavily armed escort gunship, but weight and speed limits doomed the ...

Jack’s pilot got Ridlon’s Rats over the target and on their way back to base, and much to their relief, “two or three of our squadron’s B-24s dropped their airspeed and came down to our altitude and ...

The B-29 Superfortress used four Wright R-3350-23 Duplex-Cyclone engines, each pushing out 2,200 to 3,500 horsepower, to dominate in World War II.

Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.