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The war in Ukraine, and in particular Putin’s use of unmanned drones to bomb civilians, reminds me of a fear I had as a boy ...
By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber capable of flying long ... airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was ...
A V-1 flying bomb—fired by Germany’s Luftwaffe at ... ramps near the coast of occupied France. By the end of World War II, Germany had fired around 10,000 buzz bombs at Britain.
Though it wasn't the bomber that actually ended the Second World War (that distinction and honor belongs to another Boeing ...
The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...
Launched from Nazi-occupied Europe, V-1 flying bombs and V-2 supersonic missiles rained down on the south of England during 1944 and 1945, killing almost 9,000 people. These 'Vengeance Weapons ...
Eighty years after nine airmen lost their lives in a bomber crash in Surrey, a service to commemorate them has been held. An American Air Force B-17G flying fortress bomber crashed during bad ...
By the time Raymond K. “Duke” Deamer joined his bomber unit in February 1944 at RAF Knettishall, Suffolk, England, the ...