Covid may have claimed Montana artist Jerry Crandall, but his historically accurate works ride on.
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Mystery Ship: Can You Identify this Twin-Engine British Trainer?
The idea was that this little airplane could help jet pilots battle G forces.
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He Was 19 When He Crashed Over Vietnam. Now He’s Coming Home.
Door gunner Thomas F. Green, who vanished over the skies of Vietnam in 1971, has been found and will return to his hometown in 2023.
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How These World War II Admirals Died Battling At Sea
Even flag officer rank was no protection from the Grim Reaper in WWII Pacific combat.
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US Spy Satellites Took Pictures of the Soviets in the 1960s. How Did the Film Get Back to Earth?
The C-119 wasn’t glamorous, but it served on the frontlines of the spy war against the Soviet Union.
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The Day the World’s Best Aviator Killed Will Rogers (and Himself)
Even world-famous pilots can make fatal mistakes.
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He Survived the Kamikaze Attack on USS Bunker Hill. At the Age of 100, He Remembered That Day
Everett “Red” Lanman served at Leyte
Gulf, Luzon, Formosa, Iwo Jima, and, of course, Okinawa.
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WWI American Pilots Wanted a Great Fighter Plane. Instead, They Got the Nieuport 28.
The Americans flying in World War I wanted the Spad XIII. They got the Nieuport 28 instead.
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Merry Christmas in Korea
The Grumman Tigercat first flew in 1943 but it arrived too late for a combat role in World War II. The Marine Corps ordered 500 of the carrier-based, twin-engine airplanes but used the Tigercat for land-based missions in Korea.