One of the pivotal events in the development of US Navy fighter tactics in World War II took place on Jun.…
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Buffalo flop! The story of the Brewster F2A, the aircraft deemed superior to Grumman’s F4F but that was totally outclassed by Japanese fighters
by Dario LeoneThe Buffalo won a competition against the Grumman F4F Wildcat in 1939 to become the US Navy’s first monoplane fighter aircraft. Designed and built…
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How low did he go? F-14 Pilots who helped filming “The Final Countdown” on how low the Tomcat pulled out during the Zero dogfight scene
by Dario LeoneThe motion picture featured a unique dogfight which saw two A6M Zeros flying against two F-14 Tomcats. The interesting video in…
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We Killed Yamamoto: a detailed description of the P-38 assassination of the man behind Pearl Harbor
by Dario LeoneYamamoto’s plane was no longer in sight; dominating the horizon was a column of black smoke boiling from the dense jungle…
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How Japanese Zero-sen naval aviators turned the obsolete V formation into a formidable tactics in dealing with allied fighters during the early stages of the Pacific War
by Dario LeoneAn Allied fighter pilot who managed to get an A6M in his gunsight would typically find himself quickly targeted by the…
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Here’s how Cactus Air Force was able to Repel every Japanese Assault during the Battle of Guadalcanal
by Dario LeoneThe Cactus Air Force, primarily flying the rugged Wildcat fighter and the incomparable Dauntless divebomber, weathered every Japanese assault and emerged…
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Cold War EraF-14 TomcatMilitary Aviation
F-14 Pilot’s Unreleased Notes on Filming “The Final Countdown”
One of the F-14 pilots who flew in The Final Countdown shares his personal notes on the movie that introduced the…
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The Story of the First Kamikaze Attack in World War II
by Dario LeoneAt 1053 hours on the morning of Oct. 25, 1944, an A6M5 Zeke deliberately hit USS St. Lo (CVE-63), survivor of…
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REMEMBERING JIM HUSTON, THE NAVAL FLIGHT OFFICER WHO FILMED THE AERIAL SEQUENCES OF “THE FINAL COUNTDOWN” CULT MOVIE
by Dario LeoneWhile in the Jolly Rogers, Jim Huston participated in making the movie “The Final Countdown,” filming several scenes with a camera…
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WHEN THE OLD MEETS THE NEW: WWII FIGHTER PILOT WHO FLEW THE ORIGINAL P-38 LIGHTNING GETS A GLIMPSE ON THE F-35 LIGHTNING II AND SHARES STORIES
by Dario LeoneFlying the P-38 was just like you were driving along in a Cadillac: it just purrs out there with 1300 horses…
