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NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace to honor World War II ‘Flying Tigers’ at Dover
The paint scheme comes during Military Appreciation Month celebrations.
By Zamone Perez
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Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to WWII aviation radioman
Aviation Radioman 3rd Class Peter L. Smith carried out more than 150 combat/support missions in the Pacific with Torpedo Squadron 28 during World War II.
By Diana Stancy
Cat Tales: The story of World War II’s PBY Flying Boat
Consolidated’s rugged PBY set a standard for flying boats and amphibians that will never be eclipsed.
By Stephan Wilkinson, Aviation History Magazine
Investigators suspect missing man stole airplane
The U.S. Coast Guard didn't find any wreckage or a body.
Army denies soldier’s request to grow beard in observance of Flying Spaghetti Monster religion
The importance of one’s hair or beard can never be understated.
By Jon Simkins
Inside the MacMillan Arctic Expedition of 1925
It was only peripherally an attempt to reach the pole, and yet, even with its modest goals, the expedition was no more than a nominal success.
Aliens, ahoy! Navy developing guidelines on reporting UFO sightings
Encounters with unidentified aircraft by pilots have once again prompted officials from the Department of Defense to take action.
By Jon Simkins
That time a Navy jet shot itself down
In this season of the practical joke, let's talk about some very bad mistakes unique to the world's military services.
By Alan Green, Military History Quarterly Magazine
Fly-past honors WWII airmen who died saving UK children
U.S. and Royal Air Force warplanes roared over the English city of Sheffield Friday to honor 10 American airmen who sacrificed their lives to save British children playing in a park beneath their crippled bomber during World War II.
Jesse L. Brown: the son of a sharecropper who became a Navy hero
He overcame hardship and prejudice in his quest for 'Wings of Gold.'
By Ron Edwards, Aviation History Magazine
How did you land a plane on a Navy ship in 1911? Very, very carefully
On January 18, 1911, Eugene Ely landed the Curtiss biplane on a deck erected on the cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. He was aided by a tailhook — the first ever — and arrestor cables attached to sandbags.
By HistoryNet
In the last hours of war, blood and heroism and irony and loss
World War II was clearly in its closing days — or was it?
By Sam Moses, World War II Magazine