The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has changed the facility’s Spitfire to the markings of Windsor airman Tommy DeCourcy’s WW2 aircraft, which debuted June 7, 2025, at the museum in Hamilton.

As World War II fighter pilot Jack Yarger flew low over German soldiers in France, strafing and dropping bombs, he found himself staring down the barrel of a German tank's cannon. The tank fired ...

It's worth noting that fighter pilots and bomber crews were working in an enclosed environment, so they weren't facing those dangerously low temperatures directly. However, the cockpits and cabins ...

An estimated 405,399 American service members died in World War II, including more than 250 military personnel from Butte. Among Butte’s dead was 2nd Lt. Holsey C. Johnson, a fighter pilot who ...

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has changed the facility’s Spitfire to the markings of Windsor airman Tommy DeCourcy’s WW2 aircraft, which debuted June 7, 2025, at the museum in Hamilton.

And unfortunately for many WWII fighter pilots, their cockpits were not heated. The same was not true for the pilots of the bomber brigade, as many of those aircraft had on board heating systems.