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At 103, this P-51 Mustang pilot could soon become WWII's last ace
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 ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
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Remains of Missing Tuskegee Pilot Identified Nearly 79 Years After World War II Mission
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency The remains of a Tuskegee pilot have been identified nearly 79 years after he went missing during World War II ... who crashed his P-51 in Austria in 1944.
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Clarence 'Bud' Anderson, Last World War II Triple Ace, Didn't Stop Flying Till Age 90
"Bud" Anderson arrived in the European Theater of World War II ... pilot training, he was sent to England with the 357th Fighter Group. Then-Lt. Anderson would be trained to fly the P-39 Airacobra ...
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P-51 Mustang: The Most Iconic American Fighter In History?
The most obvious feature of the P-51D was the new “bubble-top” canopy, which greatly improved the pilot’s vision ... Wulf Fw 190A. After World War II, the P-51—having performed so ...