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Close Call in an Me 262
THE AERIAL ODYSSEY OF HANS BUSCH Late March 1945: Over southern Germany in the vicinity of Neuburg, four 9th Air Force P-47s on an armed...
Flight Journal, 06/01/05 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
Tales of the Whale
Douglas A-3 Skywarriors to the rescue MID-MAY 1967 MARKED THE HEIGHT of the first phase of the air war over North Vietnam. As the last of the 16...
Flight Journal, 04/01/05 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
Goodbye Gordo
EVER NOTICE THE ESSENTIAL TRUTH OF THAT joke that begins, "I've got good news and bad news"? noticed it this past October 4. While I was...
Flight Journal, 02/01/05 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
Strangling Enemy Supply Lines
F-84 THUNDERJET ACTION IN KOREA September 19, 1951. The 9th FS, 49th PC's F-84E Thunderjets were heading north at 12,000 feet, each airplane with...
Flight Journal, 12/01/04 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
My Life is the American Dream
THE EXPLOITS OF FIGHTER PILOT SPIROS "STEVE" PISANOS Born in 1919 in Athens, Greece, the third of six sons of a subway motorman, young Spiros grew...
Flight Journal, 12/01/04 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
TAIL-END CHARLIE
A P-47 PILOT BARELY ESCAPES WITH HIS LIFE December 15, 1944, dawned cloudy and cold over the Allied airfield at Venlo, Holland. Among the many...
Flight Journal, 10/01/04 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
Raid on Rabaul
B-25 GUNSHIPS TERRORIZE JAPANESE SHIPPING 1030 hours, October 18, 1943: 36 B-25 Mitchells of the 345th BG (the Air Apaches) form up over Oro Bay on...
Flight Journal, 08/01/04 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
I sank the AKAGI
LCDR Richard H. Best Jr., USN (Ret.) Remembers The Battle of Midway THROUGHOUT HISTORY, the truly crucial naval victories have been more decisive...
Flight Journal, 04/01/04 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
P-38's blackest day, The
DAWN: JUNE 10, 1944. The great complex of air bases near Foggia, Italy, bustles with activity as the sun rises. Forty-six 82nd FG Lockheed P-38J...
Flight Journal, 12/01/03 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication -
Surviving a year of air combat: From D-day to V-E day
DURING THE SUMMER, DAWN COMES EARLY IN England. At 0200, the rumble of 48 Pratt & Whitney R-2800s reverberated over the quiet English countryside...
Flight Journal, 10/01/03 by Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey · More from publication
