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The postcard crossed an ocean, bearing news in two short sentences that must have devastated any loved ones who read it. I am prisoner in Germany, wrote First Lt. Walter Wanamaker, a World War I pilot from Akron. One broken leg but alright.
That, followed by his signature, was all he wrote, though ultimately he did make it home. His postcard, yellowed with age, is tucked away in a display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force outside Dayton.
I d heard for years that the museum was not to be missed, but I made it there only recently. I d heard also that the place was enormous, and is it ever.
M61 Vulcan: The Gun That Can Fire 6,000 Round Per Minute
The Vulcan first saw use in April 1965 in Vietnam when it was employed on an F-105 Thunderchief, and has been used with the Air Force s F-15, F-16, and F-22, and the Navy s F-14 and F/A-18. It has also been fitted in side-firing installations on the Fairchild AC-11 as well as the Lockheed AC-130 gunships.
Just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, inventor Richard Jordan Gatling designed the world s first successful rapid-fire weapon. Technically not a machine gun in the modern sense, it was spring-loaded and hand-cranked. The forerunner to the weapons that were to come, the Gatling gun s operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design that allowed for its rapid-fire, but also facilitated cooling of the barrels.
Cathey collectionEOSC Army Training
Before service in World War II, before being a Texas Longhorn, before being a New York Yankee (football) and a New York Giant â the first and legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry, flew planes all around our area as a part of his United States Army Air Forces training at then Eastern Oklahoma A&M College at Wilburton.
By the end of his sophomore college football season, still stuck on the jayvee squad, Landry was looking beyond Austin to uncertain horizons, which he would be able to see from above, in a cockpit of a Flying Fortress of his own. In February 1944, the call-up came and he found himself hopscotching the country from Wichita Falls to San Antonio, to receive escalating levels of training, then to Eastern Oklahoma State College for actual flight lessons.
The EC-121 served well for many decades in protecting America and its allies from attack.
The Lockheed Constellation entered service with the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War in 1943 as the C-69 Constellation, and most of those were later converted into civilian airplanes under the designation Lockheed L-049 Constellation. However, the United States Navy also began to see how the aircraft could be employed for patrol and airborne early warning duties in 1949.
Designated the PO-1W, it was modified to carry experimental electronic surveillance equipment, and soon proved more than capable during large exercises. Soon after, both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force ordered larger numbers of the Lockheed aircraft, which entered service as the Navy WV-2 and with the Air Force as the EC-121.