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The 5 Best Fighter Jets of World War II
World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...
Tom Harmon, the only Indiana schoolboy to win a Heisman, was even more remarkable in the skies of World War II than on the ...
A West Virginian man was flying a damaged B-17 bomber that was about to be shot down by German forces during World War II ...
Joel Abramson, a 101-year-old World War II fighter pilot now living at Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, signs his name Saturday on a 1941 Boeing Stearman plane owned by Garrett Fleishman of Oxford at ...
“I had just flown the very last combat mission of World War II,” said Abramson. At the age of 18 Abramson was serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Iwo Jima. He flew a P47 fighter plane named ...
His greatest accomplishment though was serving in the Navy during World War II. He makes it clear he never served in combat. ...
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The historic aircraft was one of 1,644 B-29 Superfortresses made by the Boeing Company during World War II. Today, the B-29 Doc is one of only two of its kind that is still able to fly.