IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. By V-J Day, September 2, 1945, ...

The F4U Corsair’s revolutionary inverted gull wing was an engineering masterpiece for speed, but it created a lethal problem ...

The airplanes of the Second World War have been incredible machines. Designed and built on fast-forward to meet the ever-changing requirements of combat situations, they all, almost without exception, ...

Back in the early 1940s, factories on most of the world’s continents were busy churning out war machines to aid in the global conflict that had just started. That era was one of incredibly fast ...

The F4U-4 as workers placed it on board the Midway this week. Photo credit: Courtesy, Midway Museum The USS Midway Museum on Friday opened a new exhibit featuring a famous historical military aircraft ...

AN F4U Corsair will be flying in to Boyington Field on August 13, giving community members a glimpse of one of the famous warbirds that flew during WWII. The Corsair, owned by Ray Thompson and piloted ...

As many as 35 Corsairs still fly today, and 11 of them made it to the 2019 Thunder Over Michigan warbird show. Getting them all in one shot took the considerable talents of photographer Scott Slocum ...

A vintage F4U Corsair fighter-bomber — the type that helped the U.S. win World War II — has been added to the exhibits of the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. The Midway is the latest in a series of ...

In the European Theater of World War II, the P-51 Mustang was the top aircraft when it came to shooting down or otherwise nullifying Axis airpower. In the Pacific, planes like the P-38 Lightning ...

The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio of over 11:1. During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought ...