During a training exercise in 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber pilot was forced to ditch his payload: a 1.69-megaton H-bomb.
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The South Vietnamese Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family
As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster
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From Ambulance Driver to Fighter Pilot
In 1914, as World War I erupted across Europe, James “Mac” McConnell knew he could no longer stay on the sidelines
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Surveying D-Day’s Aftermath at Omaha Beach
The author, a gunner with the 447th Anti-Aircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion, survived five European campaigns and the bloody beaches of Normandy.
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Life as an Air America CIA Pilot in Vietnam
In September 1964, Neil Hansen began his adventure as a pilot with Air America—the CIA’s secret airline—working clandestine operations in Southeast Asia.
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Dick Cole, 103, Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
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Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders
A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid…
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Author Gregory Crouch
Crouch’s new book, The Bonanza King, digs deep into Nevada’s Comstock Lode and magnate John Mackay
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Did Enemy Aircraft Threaten Los Angeles During World War II?
The city raged against an ambiguous foe in the first hours of February 25, 1942
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The North Vietnamese Bridge That Took Seven Years to Destroy
The road and railway bridge at Thanh Hoa south of Hanoi spanned the Ma River and was a vital link in the movement of communist troops and supplies. For the better part of a decade, U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force aviators braved the flak-filled skies over North Vietnam on missions to destroy the 56-foot-wide bridge, christened the “Dragon’s Jaw” by locals, and sever that link.