The skies over El Alamein erupted in January 1942. Squadron Leader Andrew 'Nicky' Barr, already an ace with eight confirmed ...
On October 26, 1940, the North American P-51 Mustang made its first flight, marking the beginning of one of World War II's ...
Airplanes have long played an important role in wars, conducting reconnaissance and bombing missions — as well as fighting each other in the skies. Close-quarters combat between aircraft is known as ...
Image Credit: Senior Airman Keith James - Dvidshub.net/ Public Domain/ Wiki Commons. Some own the skies. Others slip through them unseen. But every aircraft in this ...
A dogfight is a slang term used to describe any close-range aerial combat between military aircraft. It's typically credited with being coined during World War I when perhaps the first written account ...
"And then came the war": training for combat, 1943-1944 -- "Kids jerked right out of high school": Air Group 88 takes form, 1944 -- "Moved, always West, toward the ...