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Had the U.S. Navy made different, better choices at the end of World War I, it might have begun World War II with battlecruisers that could have supported its fast carrier groups.
CAF Minnesota Wing Celebrating 50th Anniversary CAF Minnesota Wing Celebrating 50th Anniversary Photo via Amy Lauria - CAF Minnesota Wing. This year marks the 50th anniversary for the Commemorative Air Force’s Minnesota Wing, one of the most active units within the organization. The unit formed on July 3rd, 1971 at historic Fleming Field in South Saint Paul. The Minnesota Wing was the very first charter unit of the National Headquarters Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF). Originally a maintenance unit, it supported the CAF’s mission and maintained its ever-growing fleet of vintag...
Tactical Thunder: The Ninth Air Force in World War II The deployment of the Ninth Air Force brought the concept of tactical air support into action for the Allies. Here's What You Need to Know: Ninth Air Force P-47s assumed a major role in Normandy after the Allied ground forces finally broke out of the hedgerows that kept them bottled up. As the landing craft carrying the invading Allied ground forces of Operation Overlord motored toward the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, they were protected and supported by the largest aerial armada the world has ever seen. In spite of medium-level clou...
#TBT: South Texas hosted 'Pearl Harbor' stars Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck in summer of 2000 Allison Ehrlich, Corpus Christi Caller Times © Michelle Christenson/Caller-Times file Alec Baldwin heads down the pier at the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay in Corpus Christi towards the trailers for lunch break during the shooting of the movie "Pearl Harbor" on July 31, 2000. South Texas film fans were on a reconnaissance mission in the summer of 2000. Their objective: locate actors Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett, who were in town to shoot scenes for "Pearl Harbor." In Ju...
The B-25 continued to be the preferred medium bomber in the Pacific until the war’s end. Here's What You Need To Remember: The B-25 was an all-around excellent aircraft; it lacked any serious vulnerabilities, and its configuration was varied during the war to best fit its requirements. During the 1920s, U.S. Army Air Service commander Brig. Gen. William C. “Billy” Mitchell drove himself into an early grave while frantically trying to convince the ground-bound generals of the U.S. Army that the airplane was the weapon of the future. Mitchell’s efforts reached the point of insubordinat...