On foggy nights during World War Two, runways were lit with fire to help guide bombers home. For thousands of RAF pilots, the ...
Dive into the gripping tale of valor and strategy as we recount the daring efforts of WW2 US pilots who faced off against a formidable Japanese battleship. Witness the intense aerial battles and learn ...
Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...
WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — After more than eight decades, a Wichita World War II veteran has finally returned home. 1st Lt. Herbert Tennyson, whose plane was shot down over Papua New Guinea in 1944, was ...
He's spent thousands of hours in scores of aircraft during his 91 years on Earth, but Jule Lamm has never been as excited for a flight as he is for the one he'll take Sunday. A longtime Santa Monica ...
Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group's World War II pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. He was 100 years old. “His legacy is ...
The pilots that fly in these freezing, hazardous conditions need intense training. What could be more intense than on a test ...
Around 1,000 soldiers from around the United States came through the pilots training program at UW-Eau Claire during its 15 months of activity in the 1940s.