The 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 U.S. military personnel and was a harbinger of a vicious new era in terrorism
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Bob Hoover: Remembering the Pilots’ Pilot
Fighter pilot, test pilot, aerobatic pilot: Bob Hoover is considered the greatest of all […]
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Hap Arnold: The Practical Air Force Visionary
In November 1938 Charles Lindbergh wrote urgently to Major General Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold, […]
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Why Did the Army Court-Martial Colonel Billy Mitchell?
This airpower advocate pushed things to the limit.
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Build Your Own Black Jet
There have been Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk kits available in a variety of scales and […]
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Larger Than Life: The Infamous Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring was an outsize character in every sense of the term…
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Was This British WWI Hero a Spy for Japan in WWII?
Royal Navy pilot Rutland earned a reputation as a WWI hero before a misstep led to his disgrace in 1941
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Off The Rails: The Forgotten Bastards of Iran
In a dusty Middle Eastern corner of the war, transport was the weapon…
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The Truth About Rotaries
Fallacies have long obscured facts in the history of rotary engines. As in subsequent […]
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Book Review: Admiral Bill Halsey
During World War II, Americans showered adulation on Douglas MacArthur, George S. Patton—and upon William F. Halsey Jr. Afterward, biographers flocked to chronicle the generals’ lives; less so the admiral’s. Now this stellar work, which seamlessly blends deep eesearch and shrewd analysis, emerges as the most complete and sophisticated Halsey portrait.