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/PRNewswire/ -- With a patriotic salute and special celebration, Princess Cruises today welcomed one of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen onboard Discovery...
Since end of WWII the major role played by the 5th Fighter Command in winning the war in the Pacific has been almost totally neglected. Wolf puts the air campaigns into strategic and tactical context, then breaks down every daily air battle into Fighter Groups and Squadrons using unit Narrative Combat Reports. Daily battles are then described by flights, elements, and individual pilots using over 9,000 newly released documents. Vol.1 describes the 5FC precursors in the Philippines, Java, and Australia and continues through Papua and New Guinea, and ends with the reduction of Rabaul in Nov.194...
The P-38 joined the war late, but it quickly became a famous workhorse. Key point: The P-38 was one heck of a rugged airplane and it actually receded the vaunted P-51. Here is the Lightning's legacy. Due largely to their use in the postwar U.S. Army Air Forces and present proliferation among the air show community, the North American P-51 Mustang is thought of by many as the most important American fighter of World War II. In reality, however, the P-51 was a relative latecomer to the war, and even though it achieved a remarkable record during the last year of the war in Europe, it was not th...
Move Over, Red Baron: This World War II Fighter Group Scored 500+ Kills The Thunderbolt’s extreme toughness and pulverizing firepower made it the obvious selection to send after the dwindling Luftwaffe on the ground. Here's What You Need To Remember: If his fate had been slightly different, Colonel Hubert Zemke could have been one of the most proficient flying aces in the Luftwaffe instead of the USAAF. On May 4, 1943, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 56th Fighter Group was ordered to meet a formation of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers returning from a run over Antwerp, Belgium. Colon...
Syria. in the work you do every day, what is the number one issue you think that keeps the administration up at night? what scares them the most. >> i think you see these rogue actors, rogue actors continuing to create destabilization throughout the world. and some of the chief parties among them include russia. also iran. we haven't talked about iran yet today. you see iran's backing of hezbollah and other fighter groups in syria causing further problems for the syrian people. you see iran involved every single day in yemen, where people are suffering there. women and children so badly. and i...