Remembering World War Two Airmen

The digitally restored negative. Click to SUPERSIZE. Great detail. The restored Marinell . I found an old negative inside a P-51 Mustang ...

[Disclaimer: 'Louey' is not my friend's real name] Visited my new friend 'Louey' in the nursing home yesterday. This tim...

Items belonging to "Louey", my friend at the nursing home. Louey is not his real name. Louey was a P-51 fighter pilot in England ...

L-R: Eighth Air Force flag;Photo album filled with interesting photos, none of which are captioned; lapel pin;classified pilot information...

As I drove down 17th in Idaho Falls today, I noticed a sign advertising an estate sale. Since I knew the guy running the sale, I thought I...

By Gabe Pressman NBCNewYork.com updated 4:45 p.m. MT, Wed., Jan. 14, 2009 Roscoe Brown will march with pride in the Inauguration Day Para...

Polikarpov ...

Arguably the greatest escort fighter of World War Two, the P-51 Mustang saved the lives of many American bomber crewmen in the deadly skies ...

William Holloman of Kent, Washington, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, bows his head Monday at the Museum of Flight while taps is played at...

Brig. Gen. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager was born in Myra, W.Va., on Feb. 13, 1923. He enlisted as a private in the Army Air Corps in...

The picture says it all.

Found in a thrift store today for less than a dollar, here is a piece of aviation history--one of the Champion Spark Plugs from the record-s...

Ever wondered what the cockpits of the great fighters and bombers of WWII looked like? Today, the blog takes you on a tour of some of the E...

One of the two P-51s impacts the runway during the airshow. Two vintage P-51 Mustangs crashed at an air show this weekend, part of a two-pl...

Captain John Pershing Perrin , 1918-1944 July 4th is Independence Day in the United States, a day of family get-togethers, hot dogs, basebal...