The Planes of Fame Air Museum has a rich collection of WWII aircraft kept in airworthy condition, such as their Mitsubishi A6M Zero (whose story you can read here: Planes of Fame’s A6M5 Zero, The Last ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

“Don’t give me a P-39./The engine is mounted behind./They’ll tumble and spin and auger you in,/Don’t give me a P-39.” That is one of the verses from the humorous Air Force traditional drinking song ...

Researchers study wreckage from Moody's P-39 aircraft, which lies in pieces on the floor of Lake Huron. The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum Frank Moody was only 22 when he crashed his plane ...

LOS ANGELES -- On the morning of April 11, 1944, Tuskegee pilot Second Lieutenant Frank Moody took off on a routine training mission. But his P-39 airplane crashed into Lake Huron, Michigan, and the ...