The image of WWII pilots as “knights of the air” hides one of aerial combat’s darkest controversies. Shooting parachuting ...
The male pilots, by many accounts, refused to fly the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. So, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. trained two women. Dora Dougherty and Dorothea Moorman learned quickly how to handle the ...
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning transformed the air war in the Pacific during World War II. Flown by legendary pilots including ...
Nearly two years after his death at 102, the pilot who downed 16 enemy planes without ever taking a hit was buried with full military honors at Arlington. Col. Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson, the last ...