When America entered WWII, its fighter tactics were built around the lessons learned during WWI. Winning in air-to-air combat was thought to be dependent on out-turning your opponent using the ...

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - This is a very exciting day at the USS Midway Museum. A rare World War II aircraft is being added to the flight deck. The F4F Wildcat helped win the Battle of the Midway in 1942.

The National Air and Space Museum’s F4F-4/FM-1—the 400th FM-1 built by the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors—is currently on display in the Sea-Air Operations exhibition. It was impossible ...

Click to open image viewer. Leroy Grumman's F4F Wildcat was not the fastest or most advanced fighter aircraft of World War II, but during the dark months after Pearl Harbor, Wildcat pilots stood firm, ...

Japan began the Pacific War with two major technological advantages over the U.S. Navy: the much more reliable Long Lance torpedo, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero carried-based fighter, a design that ...