In this video, we tell the remarkable story of the USS Hornet, one of WWII’s most decorated aircraft carriers. Initially commissioned as CV-8, the Hornet played a pivotal role in key events such as ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers ... And there were all kinds of jobs.” World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy.

Soviet wartime cameramen accompanied the fighting troops of the Red Army on foot aboard their tanks and in their aircraft to film this epochal documentary of the Battle of Moscow that halted the ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...