Supermarine Spitfire – The Ultimate WW2 Fighter?
Supermarine Spitfire As World War 2 loomed over the horizon, the British Royal Air Force introduced the Supermarine Spitfire just[…]
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The Fighter Jet that could Fly with One Wing Ripped Off
F-15 Eagle he F-15 Eagle has represented the pinnacle of American air superiority since its introduction in the late 1970s[…]
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WW2’s Most Controversial Fighter – The P-39 Airacobra
P-39 Airacobra There was a time when some commercial airplanes were faster than those of the US Army Air Corps,[…]
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Japan Flew a Bizarre Fleet of American B-17s in WW2
American B-17s in WW2 In the spring of 1945, intelligence officers from the US Army Air Forces received several unexpected[…]
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A Fighter with No Forward Guns? Boulton Paul Defiant
Boulton Paul Defiant The Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft was designed and built as a turret fighter, but since it didn’t[…]
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Forgotten Bomber – Martin A-30 Baltimore
Martin A-30 Baltimore During the opening months of 1943, the situation grew direr by the minute for the Germans in[…]
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Ramming a Disguised WW2 Ship Full of Explosives into a German Submarine Base
Disguised WW2 Ship Pictured: Little did the Germans know what secret awaited them inside the ship… Operation Chariot has been[…]
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It was the Army’s Only Air to Air Kill Since WW2
Military History In early 1968, as the Vietnam War raged on, a MiG-17 fighter jet was shot down over the[…]
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Operation Tidal Wave – 178 B-24 Bombers vs. Hitler’s Gas Station
Operation Tidal Wave The city of Ploiești, Romania, was better known during World War 2 as Hitler’s gas station. The[…]
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Battle for the Rock – WW2 & the Island Fortress of Corregidor
Battle for the Rock After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines[…]
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