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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...
Army Times on MSN14d
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 ...
Why Was The USAAF P-39 Airacobra Not Sent To Europe During WW2?
The Royal Air Force initially ordered 675 P-39s ... ultimately handicapping its ability to operate at higher altitudes. During World War II, air combat in Western Europe mostly took place at high ...
Tuskegee Airmen honored at commemoration day
The first African Military aviators in the Air Force were honored with a wreath-laying ceremony at the annual Tuskegee Airmen ...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honors two sisters for their work during World War II
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honored two sisters for their efforts during World War II. Pillen recognized Margy Dietz and Marcy ...
AeroTime7d
Australian Air Force restores WW2 P-40E Kittyhawk A29-90 aka Ming the Merciless
The Royal Australian Air Force has unveiled the restoration of a World War II P-40E Kittyhawk A29-90 aircraft, also known as ...
ABC News10d
One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump's DEI purge
With members of a trailblazing Black Air Force ... as any other in World War II and the years after. He went on to become the first Black jet fighter pilot in Korean airspace during the Korean ...
QuickCheck: Were the Muzium Negara grounds accidentally bombed during WW2?
GIVEN the nature of warfare in urban environments and the limitations of past technologies, it is regrettably inevitable that ...
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Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105
March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ...