Military Aviation Museum’s PV-2 Harpoon

The Military Aviation Museum is proud to welcome a Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon to its collection. Nicknamed “Island Doll,” the airplane shares an important history of long-range U.S. Navy missions across the Northern Pacific from bases in the Aleutian Islands. These missions played an important role in the conclusion of World War II by keeping expert Japanese forces deployed far to the north to defend against the Navy’s Ventura bombers and later Harpoons. Crews knew the...

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