Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

So, today I thank Rob Harvan of Commemorative Air Force (CAF) for suggesting our current dual topic: the Vultee XP-54 “Swoose ... crashed during a vertical dive on November 15, 1943; luckily ...

Odium’s Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in 1947 ... But even before the Korean war began, Convair’s B-36 bomber had become the Air Force’s intercontinental ...

The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers. Although the Battle of the Coral Sea ended in a tactical victory for Japan, the U.S. had ...