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Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee, who turned 100 on Dec. 7, 2019 was honorarily promoted from colonel to brigadier general in the…
Operation Secret Squirrel was the B-52’s first participation in a major campaign since the Vietnam War. The objective was to pave…
On Aug. 27, 1941 Lockheed Hudsons of RAF Coastal Command’s 269 Squadron performed a remarkable mission, something never repeated during the…
Bill Reed’s engine went silent when he was about 20 miles from Liangshan airfield. Despite what misgivings he may have had,…
“The hard wing variants did not turn as well as the slatted models. Smaller planes could out turn it however a…
In 1943, the Eighth Air Force’s top priority was to destroy the Luftwaffe and its factories, and their B-17s were specialist…
The clip also features what the news media had to say at the time about the YF23 and the YF-22, the…
Flying at approximately 48mph, the Wright Flyer Type B passed over the target in approximately a tenth of a second, and…
Carswell AFB was to be the only airfield that XB-70 Valkyrie AV/2 would fly to and return before being destroyed following…
“Suddenly gray uniforms mixed with brown. I could see them hugging each other, dancing, jumping. Americans were passing out cigarettes and…
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