During WWII, the US Navy had no purpose-built anti-submarine warfare aircraft, with pre-existing aircraft such as the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat and the Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military ... American P-51D-30-NA Mustang National Air and Space Museum Eastern Division FM-1 (Grumman F4F-4) Wildcat National Air and ...

In WWII, this role was carried out in the US Navy by the Consolidated PBY Catalina and the Grumman TBF Avenger, but by the time the Korean War broke out, the Navy had already accepted its first ...