At the American Heritage Museum, 568 Main St., the Collings Foundation has a Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk fighter plane that was at Pearl Harbor on that Day of Infamy 79 years ago.

At the American Heritage Museum, 568 Main St., the Collings Foundation has a Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk fighter plane that was at Pearl Harbor on that Day of Infamy 79 years ago.

While countless planes and ships were destroyed in the attack, one fighter plane began a journey more than half-way across the Earth, eventually ending up in the American Heritage Museum.

The prototype of the torpedo-carrying plane was unveiled at a Grumman Aircraft factory on Long Island, N.Y., on Dec. 7, 1941, the same day as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

ALBANY, N.Y.— An American fighter that’s one of the few remaining still-airworthy planes to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is being donated to an organization that flies World War ...

The aircraft was in the hanger undergoing repairs when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. That, most likely, the museum said, saved P-40B from being destroyed.

Japanese carrier planes attacked the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. Fighter planes and dive bombers also attacked Army planes based at Hickam and Wheeler fields.

The Opana station’s Private Lockard emerged from the Pearl Harbor attack as a minor celebrity. On Feb. 10, 1942, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for detecting the Japanese planes.

Some Pearl Harbor veterans did not want to see replacements in the fleet named for unretrievable USS ... displacing more than 100,000 tons carrying 75 F-35C Lightning II fighter-attack aircraft.

While countless planes and ships were destroyed in the attack, one fighter plane began a journey more than half-way across the Earth, eventually ending up in the American Heritage Museum.