During World War II, the nation's automakers were called upon to help with its war effort. So, when the Army Air Corps expressed interest in having Chrysler develop an engine for a high-speed pursuit ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

World War II was such an all-encompassing conflict that nearly everyone was involved in one way or another. In the United States, civilians gathered scrap metal and other materials for the war effort, ...