Not all heroes of the sky fought the same way. During World War II, two German pilots, Erich Hartmann and Hans-Joachim Marseille, rose above the chaos with unmatched skill and vision. While the war ...
Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World War II or patrolling the airspace in today’s contested zones, these machines ...
History is filled with military aircraft that looked like expensive miscalculations long before they ever saw combat.
On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...
High above Luzon, David McCampbell and his wingman Roy Rushing lifted their **F6F Hellcat**s into skies thick with flak and danger, expecting a difficult patrol. Instead, they encountered more than ...
As luck would have it, I stumbled upon a U.K. National Archives podcast dated June 11, 2014, titled “The untold story of the RAF’s black Second World War fliers over Europe,” whereupon I learned that ...
** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Sgt. Leo Stoutsenberger’s own ...
May 9 was World War II Victory Day in Europe, and one of the decisive factors leading to the victory of the world’s peace-seeking nations was the effective cooperation of the countries of the ...
Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...