Three fully restored, flying SB2C Helldivers will be in the skies over Colorado Springs in August. Helldivers from Fagen Fighters WWII Museum and the Commemorative Air Force Houston Wing will join Jim Slattery’s Helldiver August 19th through the 21st.

Saturday, August 15th, at 9:00 am, museum Curator and Historian Gene Pfeffer will present the story of how air superiority was achieved and the Luftwaffe defeated. Ffollowed by a flight demonstration of a P-51D Mustang

On Saturday, July 18th, 2026, at 9:00 am, Museum docent and podcast co-host Rob Gale will present the WASP story focusing on their experiences with the many combat aircraft types they flew.

On June 20th, at 9:00 am, museum docent and engineer John Lynch will tell the story of the great U.S. design teams that revolutionized aircraft design and development during World War II.

Museum Lead Docent and retired Army Colonel Ted Severn will present the story of Operation Market Garden focusing on the airborne operations of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.

In November 1943, the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) received under the U.S. Lend-Lease program the first of 95 Vought F4U-1 Corsairs, designated as the "Corsair I".

Please join us on Saturday, March 14th, 2026, at 10:00 am, for a presentation by Elizabeth Harper, co-author of Frank Macon’s book, I Wanted to be a Pilot: The Making of a Tuskegee Airman.

On Saturday, February 21st, 2026, at 10:00 am, historian Courtney Short will present the story of how Colorado supported the war effort.

In early 1941, Japan went to war with the U.S., Great Britain, The Netherlands and others to secure dominance over Southeast Asia and the oil rich regions of Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra and Java.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23 to 26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of WW II. The Imperial Japanese Navy mobilized nearly all its remaining major naval vessels to repulse the Allied invasion of the Philippines