Top 5 Can’t Miss World War 2 Fighter Planes On Display At The Smithsonian Museum

The Smithsonian Museum is famously home to a rewarding array of historic aircraft including a great collection of American WWII aircraft. WWII saw the size of American military aviation balloon from around 2,500 airplanes to almost 300,000 by the war's end. The Smithsonian exhibits some of WWII's most iconic carrier-based aircraft and strategic bombers, like the B-29 and many other types of aircraft that contributed to the war effort. Here are five top picks of the museum's 30 WWII-era American military aircraft collection.