Among the pilots was the Fifth Air Force’s highest-scoring ace, Second Lieutenant Richard Ira Bong, of Poplar, Wisconsin—population 300. His fellow pilots found him almost invisible.

The U.S. Air Force has flown a lot of fighter jets over the years — so many that they are often grouped in “generations,” from the first generation of F-80 Shooting Stars used in the last ...

Sept. 2, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of World War II, ... which was attached to the Fifth Air Force during World War II, at Clark Field in the Philippines.

The legend is that Fifth Air Force colonel P.I. Gunn, nicknamed Pappy by young pilots who thought him elderly at the age of 42, was a hot-tempered, hard-living, rule-breaking Arkansas wild man.