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  • The Bataan Death March

    With few aircraft left, United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) personnel fought as infantry to hold the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. Although they suffered from malnourishment and disease, these men battled valiantly until they were ordered by their commander to surrender on April 9,

  • Tuxedo Trousers

    Tuxedo trousers worn by the donor, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Harry W. Brown, when he was one of the few USAAF pilots in Hawaii to take off to engage attacking Japanese planes.Click here to return to the Pearl Harbor Overview.

  • Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper

    Adapted for military use from the commercial, prewar Taylorcraft Tandem Trainer, the L-2 initially carried the designation O-57. The "L" for "liaison" replaced the "O" designation for "observation." In the summer of 1941, the L-2 Grasshopper performed its service tests during US Army maneuvers in

  • Transcript of a Beaufighter Combat Mission

    SECRET HEADQUARTERS 64TH FIGHTER WING JG/rar Office of the Senior Controller APO 374 1 October, 1944. SUBJECT : Interception on HE 111, 30 Sept, 1944. TO : CG, Hq 64th Fighter Wing, APO 374, U.S. Army. 1. At 0100 hrs, target "X-Ray 5", one aircraft at Angels 4 appeared about 4 miles South of Dole

  • Test Propellers

    (as shown from left to right in photograph)Hinged-Blade Research PropellerThis 10-foot experimental propeller was ground-tested at McCook Field for the U.S. Navy. Built by Paragon Engineers Inc., it was designed with hinged blades to permit it to adapt to changes in air pressure.Micarta Controllable

  • Transcontinental Reliability and Endurance Test

    In 1919 the Air Service initiated a project to test its men and planes to the utmost under various kinds of flying conditions over an extended distance. Two groups of aircraft were to leave New York and San Francisco at the same time on Oct. 8, fly to the opposite coasts of the U.S., and then return

  • The Foggiani

    The bombing effort continued to grow in spite of the disaster to the Italian ground forces at Caporetto. In late 1917, due to the lack of suitable training facilities in the United States, a contingent of some 500 Americans were sent to Foggia, Italy, to learn military flying. After completing their

  • Thomas-Morse S4C Scout

    This aircraft is located in the Early Years GalleryThe Thomas-Morse Scout became the favorite single-seat training airplane for U.S. pilots during World War I. The Scout first appeared with an order for 100 S4Bs in the summer of 1917. The U.S. Army Air Service later purchased nearly 500 of a

  • Tragedy Strikes

    Tragedy struck during a flight on Sept. 17, 1908, when the right propeller on the 1908 Flyer fouled a guy wire, causing the plane to crash to earth. Orville Wright was seriously injured, while Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, along on the flight as a passenger, was fatally injured, thus becoming the first

  • The Aerodrome: Samuel Pierpont Langley

    In 1896 Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, flew an unmanned steam-driven airplane model three-fourths of a mile. In 1898 he received a Congressional grant of $51,000 for further development of an airplane capable of carrying a person. Langley and his