A textbook intercept and missile launch by U.S. Navy F-4 Phantoms resulted in the first confirmed MiG kills of the Vietnam War.
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B-29 Crash Site Now a Memorial Along Popular Hiking Trail
On November 3, 1948, “Over Exposed,” a converted B-29 Superfortress crashed in the Peak […]
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Operation Tidal Wave: What Went Wrong With the US Attack on Romania in WWII?
A veteran of the B-24 raid on Ploesti tells the real story behind the costly mission.
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Warplanes of a Different Stripe
A tragic 1943 friendly fire incident in Sicily prompted development of aircraft identification markings that saved countless lives on D-Day
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Hitler’s ‘Cavalry of the Future’
Adolf Hitler had an ulterior motive for ramping up the Third Reich’s investment in the German automotive industry and its racing teams.
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The Japanese Pilot Who Bombed Mainland America
Nobuo Fujita aimed to kill Americans in a fiery blaze, but his actions yielded a far different result.
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An American Pilot’s Improbable Adventure in Occupied France
Joel McPherson’s life changed the day he jumped out of his crippled P-47 and parachuted into a foreign land.
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How Roland Garros Put Machine Guns on Planes and Changed the Course of Aerial Warfare
Air combat came of age during World War I with the invention of devices that allowed fighter pilots to “point and shoot.”
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Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology
In Harnessing the Airplane Lori A. Henning, assistant professor of history at St. Bonaventure […]
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Secret Gadgets and Strange Gizmos of World War I
Weapons designers and engineers created a host of goofy experimental weapons as they sought […]