U.S. Navy aircrews and recruiters loved it, but its record suggests the Top Gun mount wasn’t all it was cranked up to be.
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USS Midway on Display
A San Diego museum showcases one of the Vietnam War’s most famous aircraft carriers
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Billy Mitchell’s Aerial Blitzkrieg
More than a century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow.
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Ted Williams Goes to War
Red Sox legend Ted Williams proudly served as a Marine Corps aviator during World War II—it was his service in Korea that came as a surprise
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How ‘Speedy Pete’ Piloted the Fastest Flight Ever Made by a Manned Aircraft
Piloting X-15s to a record Mach 6.7 and the fringes of space, U.S. Air Force Major Pete Knight earned the Harmon Trophy and nickname “Speedy Pete”
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Commandeered by the Navy, Plutocrat’s Maritime Plaything Went Down a Gallant Warship
After years as a plutocrat’s plaything a luxury vessel came to a violent end
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Devyatayev’s Flight: A Russian POW stole a German bomber and lived to tell the tale
A daring Russian fighter pilot faced perils from friend and foe when he decided to escape a concentration camp in a German Heinkel 111 bomber.
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The Yank Coastwatcher Who Risked All in the Pacific
During World War II, young American cattle rancher Franklin Nash served as a member of Australia’s covert Coastwatchers
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War and Peaceniks
After their military service, these distinguished warriors did a crisp about-face on the wisdom of armed conflict.
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Italy’s African Eagle
East African orphan Domenico Mondelli won the Italian Armed Forces Silver Medal for Military Valor in World War I