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The Japanese WW2 Bombers That Didn't Have Armor
The Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" was Japan’s most ambitious World War II bomber—and its crews' deadliest trap. Known to American pilots as the "Flying Lighter" for its terrifying tendency to burst into ...
Despite a temperature in the single digits, nearly 50 people came out Monday evening for the monthly meeting of the World War II Heritage Society, where the featured speaker, Dave Walker of Brookfield ...
William “Bill” Hanchett was a Berkeley-educated history scholar. He was a civilian historian for the U.S. Air Force and for more than 30 years taught U.S. history at San Diego State University, where ...
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The bomber that flew too low and changed World War II
In 1943, American bombers were failing to stop Japanese reinforcements in the Pacific. One man, Captain Paul “Pappy” Gunn, ...
Tony Foulds got his wish to commemorate the men who saved his life 75 years ago. LONDON -- Hundreds of people gathered to watch an emotional U.S. Air Force flyover in England Friday, granting the ...
One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...
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