Eighty years since the end of World War II, a push has begun to build a memorial at Historic Wendover Airfield honoring the men and women who died while training at the facility.
At the historic Wendover Airfield, a once bustling hub of World War II military training, a new effort is underway to ensure that thousands of fallen aviators are finally honored.
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Veteran Pilot Recalls Remarkable WWII Story
This video recounts the story of Ed McNeff, a pilot of the 355th Fighter Group, highlighting his first dogfight against the ...
A south Georgia museum is getting some additional federal funding to preserve its impact on aviation training for WWII pilots ...
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Facebook on MSNWWII Torpedoman Patrick Zilliacus explains why they trained on old submarines
A WWII torpedoman shares his first-hand account of training. This video explains the reasons why submariners were often trained on older boats and the challenges they faced before going into battle.
Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots ...
Archaeologists are searching the site where a World War Two American plane crashed in 1944 in the hope of finding its pilot's ...
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These Are the Most Important Allied Women of World War 2
Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied ...
WWII hero Lt. Col. George Hardy, the youngest Tuskegee Airman combat pilot at 19, has died at 100 at his Sarasota home after ...
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The F6F Hellcat Downed More than 5,000 Japanese Warplanes in World War II
The Hellcat’s forgiving flight characteristics and durability allowed less experienced pilots to survive early engagements and gain greater experience against the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
In September 1942, the Fort Robinson War Dog Training Center was created. It comprised of barracks, classrooms and kennels ...
At 19, he was one of the youngest pilots in the all-Black unit to see combat in World War II. “I used to say the Army’s No. 1 ...
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