Author: leo7

PART2 By the time it ended, 23 planes had been sh0t down. Another 37 were damaged. … The Day American B0mbers Hit Their Own Men—And Exposed the Deadliest Flaw in the Allied W@r MachinRead more

PART 2 Between 2110 and 2205, two runs came through. B0mbs fell, but nothing critical was … The Night Japanese Commandos Landed on an American Airfield—And Every Mechanic Grabbed a RifleRead more

  PART2 Four days earlier, on February 19, roughly 30,000 Marines had stormed ashore. The island … The Marine They Said Was Too Short—Then Iwo Jima Sent Him Alone Against Seven Pillboxes and Three BayonetsRead more

PART2 One hundred seventy-eight B-24s would take off from Libya, fly more than twelve hundred miles … The Burning B-24 That Refused to Turn Away—Operation Tidal Wave and the D3adliest Low-Level Raid of World W@r IIRead more

PART2 By the late 1930s, the Spitfire was already becoming more than an aircraft. It was … The Spitfire Ace Who Flew Too Close—The Mystery of Pat Hughes’ Final MissionRead more

PART2 It began in 1940, in American shipyards, when the country was not yet formally in … The Carrier That Rose From the D3ad: How USS Hornet Fell in Flames, Came Back With a New Name, and Helped Break JapanRead more

PART2 The cockpit was another advantage. Pilots found it clean, logical, and well organized. The control … The German Fighter That Broke the Spitfire’s Confidence—Until the Focke-Wulf 190 Was Crushed by the W@r It Was Built to WinRead more

PART2 The code meant that surprise had been achieved. For Japan, it was the signal that … Pearl Harbor Through Japanese Eyes—The Gamble That Awakened AmericaRead more

PART2 Somewhere behind him was the empty place where William Foy should have been. And somewhere … The Lost Hellcat Pilot of Leyte—John Laxton’s Final Flight Into the Philippine SkyRead more

The Fork-Tailed Devil They Misunderstood: How the P-38 Lightning Failed in One Sky and Became a … The Fork-Tailed Devil They Misunderstood: How the P-38 Lightning Failed in One Sky and Became a Legend in AnotherRead more