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Flying the Dragon Lady
Capt. "Blitz" Alexander flies the U-2 out of Beale, a few miles from where his father and grandfather served on C-141s and C-5s.
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Two Forgotten Warriors: The PV-2 Harpoon and the Navy Seawolves
Lockheed's PV-2 Harpoon and the Navy's HA(L)-3 Seawolves fought very different wars, and neither has gotten much credit for it.
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America's Five Deadliest Fighters of World War II
The Hellcat, Corsair, Mustang, Wildcat, and P-40 topped America's WWII kill tallies—and the numbers behind the rankings hold a few surprises.
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VMF-323 Death Rattlers: Marines in Corsairs over Okinawa
Seven Death Rattler Corsair pilots downed 24.75 Japanese aircraft in 25 minutes over Okinawa on April 22, 1945, without losing a single Marine.
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Famous P-38 Lightning Pilots of World War II
Bong, McGuire, MacDonald, and Lindbergh all flew the twin-boom Lightning in the Pacific, where nose-mounted guns and long range rewarded pilots who understood both.
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Operation Hailstone: Carrier Strike on Japan's Pacific Fortress
Ninety minutes before dawn on February 17, 1944, Task Force 58 launched hundreds of aircraft against Truk Lagoon, the base American aviators dreaded most.
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Rosie the Rocketeer: Major Carpenter's Tank-Busting L-4 Cub
Major Charles Carpenter bolted six bazooka tubes to a 65hp Piper L-4 Cub and went hunting German armor over France without authorization.
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SR-72 Darkstar: The Hypersonic Son of the Blackbird
Lockheed's Skunk Works is building an unmanned Mach 6 successor to the SR-71, and the Darkstar is designed to do far more than look.
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Major Lindsay 'Mad' Johnson and the Final A-10 Warthog Demonstration
Major Lindsay "MAD" Johnson flew her last A-10C demo on April 9, 2025, closing out the Warthog demonstration program as its final pilot.
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F-35C Charlie: Inside the Carrier-Compatible Lightning II
Twin nose wheel, catapult launch bar, and no internal gun: what sets the F-35C apart as the Marine Corps stands up its carrier squadrons.
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Fieseler Fi 156 Storch: Built to Land Almost Anywhere
With a 32-mph stall speed and full-span leading-edge slats, the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch went where no conventional airplane could—including a rocky Apennine plateau.
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The Fokker Triplane: WWI's Most Recognized Fighter
Pilots who have flown surviving Fokker Triplanes call it an oddball: no fixed fin, constant yaw, and a landing that blinds you completely.
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The Martin P6M SeaMaster: First Flight and Final End
Martin's jet-powered P6M SeaMaster flying boat won a $30 million Navy contract, then lost two prototypes to a single miscalculated number nobody caught.
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WW II Commemoration Ceremony
Near Wiehe, Germany, a memorial cross now marks where B-17 crews of the 94th, 95th, and 388th Bomb Groups came down in 1944.
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Pacific Wrecks
Pacific Wrecks and a Wisconsin museum are mounting a month-long jungle search for "Marge," the P-38 Lightning flown by 40-kill ace Richard Bong.
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Web Foot Bomber - Martin’s P6M: SeaMaster or Sea Monster?
Martin's P6M SeaMaster was to launch nuclear strikes from ocean lagoons, refueled by submarines—until two prototypes came apart over the Potomac and Delaware farm fields.
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Untold Story: How the USAF Won the Korean War but Couldn’t Tell Anyone
Ten days before the armistice, a captain-turned-major launched 120 unauthorized night sorties against a North Korean marshalling yard—and the Fifth Air Force denied it ever happened.
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The Spoils of War - One generation’s junk is another generation’s treasure
In 1945, a Zeke 52 and a J2M Jack were scrap metal awaiting the torch; today they'd be priceless, and largely irreplaceable.
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High-Time Hog Driver
Lt. Col. John Marks has logged 7,025 hours in the A-10 since 1988, including a 1991 sortie day that destroyed 23 Iraqi tanks.
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Kittyhawk Jungle Rescue
Flipped into a New Guinea mud pit in April 1944, Flight Sergeant James Harvey's P-40N-1 sat in the jungle for 65 years before flying again.