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World War 2's Worst Bomber Was Basically A Flying Coffin
America has made many great airplanes, but this wasn't one of them. Toward the war's end, many of them went straight from the ...
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The North American A-36: Inside America’s Ill-Fated World War II Dive Bomber
While the A-36 proved capable of consistently hitting its targets, the aircraft’s accident rate was concerning.
Former bomber pilot reflects on D-Day and return to Australia after World War II
A World War II bomber pilot from Sydney reflects on his teary reunion with his mother, the Normandy landing and life after ...
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The day London went ‘barmy.’ An East End boy remembers the end of World War II in Europe
LONDON (AP) — John Goldsmith was too young to fight in World War II, but he remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that devastated his neighborhood in east London. And he remembers ...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh to feature 4 Grumman fighter planes in 'Only at Oshkosh' moment
The Air Legends Foundation will bring the four Grumman aircraft — the F4F-3 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F7F Tigercat and F8F ...
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Three Heavy Bombers Would Have Led the Soviet Assault on America
The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered ...
The world marks the 80th anniversary of V-E Day with parades and memorials. Here’s what to know
LONDON (AP) — Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks ...
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Mitsubishi K-1 and Ki-2: Japan’s Not-So-Successful WWII Copycat Bombers
By the time World War II began in Asia, both the Mitsubishi K-1 and K-2 were considered obsolete. During World War ...
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Wyoming History: In 1930s-40s, United Made Cheyenne The ‘Air Capital Of The West’
In the 1930s and 1940s, United Airlines made Cheyenne its hub for maintenance, research and training, even making the city ...