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Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World ...
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P-51D Mustang: The Best WWII Fighter?

The North American P-51D Mustang was the definitive long-range escort fighter of World War II, fundamentally turning the tide of the air war over Europe. -While early versions of the Mustang were ...
Before the Goodwood Motor Circuit was a destination for some of the greatest drivers of the 1950s and ‘60s, it was the ...
In turn this leads you to wonder how it must have felt, living on the English coast in 1944, as 700 of these behemoths roared ...
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Forked-Tail Masterpiece

Jim O'Hara's scratchbuilt P-38 is a multi-generational effort . The post Forked-Tail Masterpiece appeared first on KITPLANES.
Newcomers to the Niagara town of Pelham can be forgiven for being startled by the abrupt appearance—preceded by a distant ...
Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...
Explorers have discovered wartime torpedoes among the wreckage of a sunken U.S. destroyer that went down near the Solomon ...
Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...
Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were pressed into service in every theater of the war to tackle tasks ranging from ...
Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he ...
The USS Laffey (DD-459) sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. According to the USS Laffey Association ...