Warbird Histories

Japanese Zero 

The plane goes 351 miles per hour. It has one crew member.  It has two machine guns. It is a fighter plane.  The plane fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battle of Midway, battle of Coral Sea, battle of Okinawa, and the battle of Wake Island.  

B-17      

 The B-17 is a Bomber plane. It has nine machine guns. It has eight crew members. The plane is bigger than the B-25 Mitchell. It bombed Germany. There was a famous movie called the Memphis Belle. It flew 25 missions. It shot down German planes. They bombed Germany on May 1943. The Memphis Belle is in the Palm Springs Air Museum.  It goes about 287.01 miles per hour. 

British Spitfire                                                       

The British spitfire is a British plane.  It fought in the Battle of Britain and the Pacific Theater. It fought a lot of missions. It shot down German bombers and Messersmith BF 109's. It had eight machine guns. It is a fighter plane. The Spitfire goes 360 miles per hour. The plane has one crew member.  The color of the plane is green. The RAF stopped using the Spitfire in 1954.

P-51 Mustang 

The plane was designed in April,1940. It is a fighter plane. The Mustang has one machine gun.  The fighter goes about 440 miles per hour. It is an American plane. The P-51 shot down German planes and some Japanese Zeros. This is a powerful and fast plane. The plane has one crew member. The Royal Air Force also had some p-51 Mustangs. 

B - 25 Mitchell           

   The plane was designed in 1941. It served in the Doolittle Raid. The plane's we putt on the aircraft carrier Hornet. The planes took off early because they spotted Japanese boats. They took off several hundred miles from the Japanese coast. They were army planes. Those are bomber planes. They flew just above water, so they would not get caught by radar. After they bombed Tokyo, the planes crashed landed in China. Their was a race between the Chinese and the Japanese to find the American pilots.   

B- 29 Superfortress 

The b 29 is a massive bomber plane. It used for the Americans. It is bigger than fighter planes, b - 25 Mitchell, and b -17 flying fortress, The color of the plane is silver. It has four machine guns. It bombed Tokyo. They used nuclear bombs. Thats how the Americans won the war in 1945. It shot down a lot of Japanese zeros. The plane carries 15 crew members. The plane was designed in September 1941. Thats three months before the Pearl Harbor attack.  today, there are not a lot of b 29's left today.

F4U Corsair

The Corsair was a World War 2 plane from the United States. It was introduced on December 28,1942.  The Corsair shot down 403 Japanese Zeroes. This plane was really fast. It has one machine gun. The color of the plane was dark blue. The plane wings can pull up and come down. It goes 446 miles per hour. It has one crew member. There was in a famous tv show called the Black Sheep Squadron. It was a famous squadron from World War 2. They fought bravely against the Japanese in southeast Asia. The Corsair helped win the war in the Pacific.  

P-38 Lightning           

The P-38 Lightning was another plane from World War 2. The plane has one crew member. The fighter has one machine gun and it dropped bombs The color of the plane is green. It shot down Japanese Zeros. The plane fought in the Pacific with the Americans. The P-38 was designed in 1939 after Hitler invaded western Poland. It can drop bombs. The plane can go 443 miles per hour. Some of the P-38's are still around but no a lot because they are really old. 

P-40 Warhawk      

P- 40 was an American plane from World War 2. It was a fighter plane. The plane was also served with the RAF before it came to America. It had shark teeth in the front of the plane. The plane has one crewmember and one machine gun.  It was designed in 1938.  The P-40 goes 40 miles per hour. It has the same size and length as a p-51 mustang.  It shot down Japanese zeroes.  Today, there are not a lot of P 40's left. Alot of them were destroyed back in the war.   

P-47 Thunderbolt             

The P-47 was an American plane from World War 2. It was a fighter and bomber plane. The color of the plane can be green and brown.  The warbird has one machine gun and one crew member.  It shot down Japanese Zero. It can go 440 miles per hour. The plane was designed on May 1941 before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the battle of Wake Island. 

Gruman Bearcat            

    The bearcat was designed on August 1944. It is one year before Japan surrendered to the US. The color of the plane is dark blue.  It was American plane from the Navy.  It was a navy with the corsair. It has one machine gun and one crewmember. The plane also used for the RAF a little bit.  It folds the end of the wing.  It is part of the corsair's wing's that can go up and down.  It was a fighter plane.  The plane goes 395 miles per hour. It is another fast plane.  It is fast like a p-40, p51, Corsair, and the British spitfire. Those small planes can go really fast than bomber planes.  It shot down Japanese Zeros. It retired in 1963 before or after President John F Kennedy died in November. The plane landed on an aircraft Yorktown back in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 after the Doolittle riad.  

C-47 Skytrain       

 C-47 was a sky train from the Americans. The plane has no machine gun.  It can carry five to ten army soldiers.   It goes 155 miles per hour. It served during D-Day when the Nazis invaded Northern France.  The American soldiers jumped out of the sky train and landed on open areas. Also, the sky train also served with the RAF before the Americans joined in World War 2.  It was designed on December 1941 few weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. 

SBD Dauntless                    

   The dauntless was a plane from the Americans.  It was a bomber and Scot plane.  It shot down Japanese zeros. It served in the Battle of Midway. The plane bombed Carrier Akagi, Hiru, and soy.  Thats the part from the battle of midway.  The plane was designed on May 1940 on month before the battle of Britain when Britian was in war with Germany, France, Italy, and the Soviet Union. It has one machine gun and two crew members. 

Messersmith BF 109        

The 109 was a plane from the Nazis. It bombed London in 1940 when the German Luftwaffe flew Durling the battle of Britain. It was designed on May 1935 two years after Hitler created the Nazia political party. The plane has one crewmember and one machine gun. It shot down some spitfires, but they mostly go killed by the spitfires from the British squadron called the RAF. 

V2- rocket

The V2 vas a rocket from the Germans from world war2. Its bomber Great Britain in June 1940. It is larger than the US rockets. The color is half green and half yellow. It was designed in 1944 one year before Japan surrendered to the US. According to the rocket, it also used for the British, US, and the Soviet Union.  

Stuka Dive bomber                

Stuka was a German dive bomber from World War 2. It bombed France, Britain, Poland, and Denmark. The plane has two crewmembers. It was designed on May 1935. The plane has one machine gun.  The color of the plane is black. The plane drops two or three bombs. This plane was designed two years after Hitler created the Nazis. 

B-52 Stratofortress                   

 The b-52 is a monster bomber from the War of Vietnan.  The color of the plane can be silver and green on different B-52s. It was designed on April 1952.  The plane can drop eight bombs. My grandpa was in the air force as a doctor. He was on a B-52 base. He helped wounded soldiers  in a hospital in the air force. Today, the US is using b-52's since from the War of Vietnan.

V-1 Rocket                        

    The V-1 was a German rocket from World War 2. The color of the rocket is dark gray.  It is a largest rocket as the same size of the V-2 rocket. It bombed Great Britain in 1940. It was developed in 1939. The rocket is a type of cruiser missile that can launch in the air. 

Hawker Hurricane

Hawker was a British plane from World War 2. It is a similar plane as a spitfire.  The plane served during the Battle of Britain. The color of the lane is dark green. It has one crew member and one machine gun. It also shot down German planes. Today, there are not a lot of hawker hurricanes here in the world. 

F-14 Tomcat     

F-14 is a fighter jet for the air force and the navy. It was in the Top Gun movies from 1986 and 2022.  The color of the plane is gray. It has two crew members. They can go 14 miles per hour. The plane can drop two bombs. They were designed on December 1970. Today, there are still around for 40 years. 

F- 117 Stealth                             

    F-117 is a fighter and bomber plane for the Air Force.  The color of the plane is dark gray.  The plane can drop bombs. It also has material on the plane so they won't get caught by radar. It has one crew member.  The Plane can go 630 miles per hour. It is not a fast plane, but other fighter jets can.  Today, the air force use stealth planes today. 

Hindenburg

The Hindenburg was a blimp from the Nazis. It had a restaurant and bedrooms. The color of the blimp is silver. It was designed in 1931. The blimp can carry 50 passengers.  In May 1937, The Hindenburg blew up in New Jersey.  It was caused by a bomb that a passengers hidden a bomb in the blimp, and it blew up on fire. 

Heinkle           

      Heinkle was a German bomber from World War 2. It has two machine guns. The plane dropped bombs in the Battle of Britain and different states in Europe when Hitler invaded them. The color of the plane is black.  Today, there are very amount of Heinkle German bombers.

RAF               

The RAF is a famous British squadron from World War 2.   It served in the battle of Britain. The planes shot down tones of German planes and bombers.  The planes who fought the German Luftwaffe were spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes.  The RAF fought bravely against Hitlers squadron. The RAF shot down 32 planes from the Battle of Britain. 

Black Sheep 

Black Sheep was a famous corsair squadron from World War 2.   The squadron lead by Pappy Boyington.  The squadron was filmed with episodes in 1976. This was a true story about them. The real Black Sheep squadron began in 1943.    Boyington won a medal for being a flying ace. 

C-53 Skytrain        

C-53 is a sky train from World War 2.  It can carry 5-10 passengers.  Army soldiers jumped off the plane during D-Day. It also served with the RAF. The color of the plane can be green and silver. It has two propellers. It can go 154 miles per hour. It is similar to a C-47 sky train.  This plane is also slow . The plane served for the Americans for the rest of World War 2. 

Memphis Belle                         

   The Memphis Belle was a famous B-17 from World War 2.    It has four propellors.  It flew 24 missions and bombed Germany. The color of the plane is black. It has six machine guns. It was designed in 1934 when the Nazis Begun one after 1933. It is a massive bomber plane in World War 2. The plane can weigh 32,700 pounds. It bombed Germany in 1944 before Germany surrendered to the US and the Soviet Union. Today, the original Memphis Belle is still around and it's located in the Palm Springs Air Museum. 

Blue Angles 

The blue angels are a current squadron for the navy The color of the plane is blue and yellow. The plane has one crewmember. It can 200 miles per hour. It is a very fast plane in the navy. The blue angels are F- 18 fighter jets. The blue angels always go to every airshow. Today, you will see blue angels up in the sky.

Fokker                    

  The Fokker was a famous German plane from World War 1. The color of the plane is red. The plane was belonged to a famous German ace pilot Manfred Von Richthoten. He shot down 80 planes. The plane has one machine gun and one crew member. The plane was designed on July 1917. The plane can go 80 miles per hour. Today, there are really tiny bitt of German Fokker re baron planes to see in air museums today.

P-63 king cobra  

P-63 was designed on December 1942. They built 4,200 P-63s back in World War 2. The color of the plane can be green, silver, and brown. It has one crewmember to sit in the plane. The plane can go 275 miles per hour. This is a really fast plane. Today, there are not a lot of king cobras around. 

De Havilland Mosquito 

Mosquito is a British fighter bomber from World War 2. It was designed on November 1940 after the Battle of Britain. The plane can go 400 miles per hour. The plane has one machine gun in the front. The color of the plane is green and white stripes. Today, there are few mosquitos here in America. 

Luftwaffe        

The Luftwaffe was a German air squadron from World War 2.  They bombed London during the battle of Britain in 1940. They were named by the Fuher Adolf Hitler. The Luftwaffe began on September 1,1939 when Germany invaded western Poland. Today, the German Luftwaffe is history. 

B-24 Liberator 

B-24 was an American bomber from World War 2. The plane was designed in 1939. The plane can go 290 miles per hour. Their some body parts similar to a B-25 Mitchell. The plane has five machine guns. Today, there are not a lot of b-24s here in America. 

B-30 Lockhead

B-30 was an American bomber plane from World War 2. The plane served in Europe.    The plane has three machine guns. The plane can go 100 miles per hour. This plane is a big bomber plane. Today, there are not a lot of B-30s here in America.