Museum Spotlight: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
The museum’s favorite aircraft among visitors was left abandoned in a swamp for decades before it was found and restored.
The museum’s favorite aircraft among visitors was left abandoned in a swamp for decades before it was found and restored.
The aircraft’s red livery is a nod honoring the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.
On December 20, 1941, an all-volunteer group of American mercenary pilots took on Japanese bombers in their first air combat mission to protect China. By day’s end, the American Volunteer Group (AVG)—better known as the “Flying Tigers”—would go on to down nine out of 10 Japanese bombers in the first of many air battles in […]