During World War II, American fighter pilots relied on specialized uniforms, survival gear, and flight equipment to withstand ...

Arguably, the last such man is James McCubbin, a North American P-51D Mustang pilot of the Eighth Air Force who is currently under consideration - at 103 years old. How a WWII ace became the ...

Brewer’s P-51. So there was a good chance that the pilot recovered from the wreckage at Moggio Udinese was Brewer. Tony Bennett saw racism and horror in World War II. It changed him. But the ...

Initially designed for the Royal Air Force, the Mustang became a pivotal aircraft in WWII ... RAF pilots an advantage at attacking the bombers, some British ground crews mistook the P-51 for ...

"It's agile, to me, it's easy to fly." Just like a World War II-era P-51 Mustang, the veteran pilot from the 14th Air Force is easy to talk to his ammunition. Quick wit. "Don't you have better ...

3 Key Points: The P-51 Mustang, often hailed as the best operational piston-engined fighter of WWII, was rapidly developed ... of sustained fire. Mustang pilots shot down a total of 4,950 enemy ...

Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson Jr., on the wing of his P-51 Mustang, was the last living triple ace pilot of World War II. MUST CREDIT: Gift of Obrin Medley/The National WWII Museum Clarence E.

After a Grand Rapids World War II veteran’s medal was found in a Georgia junk heap, a local historian dug up everything he ...

Others they piloted included the Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft; the AT-6, nicknamed “The Texan” on which many Allied fighter pilots were trained; and the P-51 Mustang, which was a long ...

ROME, Ga. — A World War II pilot from Georgia is reuniting with the type of plane he flew before becoming a prisoner of war. Jim McCubbin, 101, flew P-51 Mustang fighters in Europe throughout ...

John Galvin became an ace pilot during WWII, but his most prized award may ... load ammunition belts in the wing of a North American P-51 Mustang in Honington, England, in1944.

On scores of missions, the P-51 fighter with a skinny rabbit ... Brewer Jr., 23, one of the renowned World War II African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, climbed into the cockpit ...