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In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.
America has made many great airplanes, but this wasn't one of them. Toward the war's end, many of them went straight from the ...
Legend had it that Dorothy Furey was the daughter of a wealthy banana importer. Legend had it that her family lost a fortune ...
It was the "spirit of the day" that drew Bill Purdy to the air force during World War II. The now-centenarian still remembers being called up as a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1942. "The war had been ...
FOX 13 Tampa Bay on MSN1d
At 101, Dunedin World War II veteran reflects on service during ‘Victory in Europe Day’May 8, 1944, is a day Bob Russell remembers well. A fighter/bomber pilot with the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe, he was in a ...
The National Interest on MSN9d
The North American A-36: Inside America’s Ill-Fated World War II Dive BomberWhile the A-36 proved capable of consistently hitting its targets, the aircraft’s accident rate was concerning.
San Jose resident Sandy Bellou remembers her mother crying whenever she spoke about her older brother, 2nd Lt. Robert ...
The 5 female pilots and 130 male recruits who packed onto the SS Beaverhill ... although she was the first American woman cleared to fly during World War II, before her country even joined the fight.
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